Sunday November 25: Savannah, GA

 It was a wonderful 2 1/2 days at Edisto Island in the company of Jim and Linda and some of their family. Two turkey's - one in the oven and one deep fried - along with deep fried shrimp and sweet potatoes sufficiently coated with sugar and cinnamon!

A few projects were completed with the help of Jim and his son Alan. Not too much work though as it was really a time to relax.

We said our goodbye's and headed out about 10 or so on Saturday morning. This gave us several hours before low tide in the creek. Jim said this would give the water time to show the banks but still give us plenty of "oops" room.

No issues making it back to the ICW and it was a very pleasant travel day of about 35 mile to Beaufort, SC. We've been there before and it's always a nice place to stay.

The travel is now through winding rivers and sounds with mostly marsh grass surrounding the waterways.

The weather is still cool - it'll be 38 tonight - but the days are now sunny and it's downright pleasant up on the flybridge :-)

Dolphins are around us quite often through this area. If Steve goes to the front of the boat, 2 or 3 dolpins at a time will play in the bow wave - looking up at him as they swim.

Steve did take advantage of the loaner car at Beaufort to find a rice cooker. It makes it so much easier and it now lives where the very large pot we used for lobster used to be. Figure we'll be using the rice cooker a lot more than the lobster pot!

It was again a great day today with even less wind than yesterday. Some of the rivers and sounds we traveled today were quite large so it made for an easy travel day of 45 miles to Savannah, GA.

I'm not sure when we crossed into Georgia but must not have been too long before arriving here today.

The municipal dock is right downtown near the historic district. This is the first time we have come by boat so it was nice to be able to get a spot on the dock (they don't take reservations but you can watch the dock on a live river cam so we could keep checking to see if there was space available).

If you check this live river cam, there are two very large river boats on the lower right of the screen. We are the next boat on the dock - facing backwards to the camera. Of course we have now left :-)

We had time for a nice bike ride around the historic district. It was amazing how many parks were right downtown. Seemed like every other block had a square in the middle with some kind of statue or memorial.

This was the coolest one though for sure.

Tomorrow will be a very short day of 15 miles to a marina outside of Savannah. A trip to stores for a few needed items to complete repairs are in order.

South - here we come. Still too cold around here ....