We stayed for a week in Jacksonville, Fl, to wait for the weather to cooperate for our start north. While we were there the Southern colleges had a Navy ROTC regatta. The winner was a local school, Jacksonville College. There was some good competition: Tulane, Georgia Tech, Savanah College , a couple schools from So. Carolina and No. Carolina. I think they said 8 schools participated.
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| NROTC Regatta |
We had a great sunny day and good seats!
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| Getting our seats ready to watch the action! |
From Jacksonville we followed the ICW through Georgia, anchoring in a different creek each night until we got to Thunderbolt, GA, about 8 miles south of the GA/SC border. We anchored in Herb River about 2 miles south of Thunderbolt and were up all night with thunderstorms and high winds. We decided to take a break and stayed at the Marina there for the following night to rest. Then we were off again traveling everyday from 7:30 to 3:00 anchoring in creeks to Port Royal, SC. We need to get fuel so we took a slip for the night stopped and treated ourselves to dinner at the marina resturant. 3 more nights in creeks and then stopped at a marina in Myrtle Beach for a night. Here we took on the rest of the fuel we will need to reach Beaufort, N C. This is where we plan to have the boat hauled and stored for the summer. Our boat insurance says we have to be this far north for hurricane season so we think it will be a good time to get the travel trailer ready and head out to the west coast to see our grandchildren. Hopefully, we will be able to get a flight to Okinawa to see Dirk, Sharon, and Cece.
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| We came acoss this sticking up in the channel of the ICW in Georgia. If you look closely it is the top of the trunk of a palm tree. You never know what you will see in the water! I will keep posting our trip to Maine and on to WA and Okinawa, |
