We left Charleston after a fun dinner with friends we haven’t seen in over a year and headed down to Hilton Head where we finally, FINALLY, anchored out for the night on Skull Creek. It was peaceful, pretty and soothing for my soul.
Of course after not using the windlass for six months it was a little cantankerous and didn’t want to release. After a few tries we got the anchor to catch on the muddy bottom although it wasn’t a very secure situation. No surprise when at 9PM Gary told me the anchor was dragging and we would have to reset. Grab the flashlight (the really big one), turn on the spotlight and fire up the engines. Within about 15 minutes we had a really good set on the anchor and went to bed. Although Gary kept getting up periodically to check the anchor I slept like a baby.
The next day we cruised into the Marina at Skull Creek and picked up Gary’s sister and brother-in-law who were in the area. We spent a couple days with them playing golf and having an early Thanksgiving dinner. One evening I heard a racket outside the boat and went on the bow to check it out. I surprised a large heron who was sitting on our bowsprit. He had been having a conversation with the pelican sitting on the piling next to us.
We waved family off Thanksgiving morning as they headed back to Alabama and moved down to the north end of Jekyll Island for another night at anchor. An incredible sunset, beautiful star studded night and even a shooting star!
From there we did another overnight cruise off the coast and arrived in Daytona Beach for a couple days to catch up with more friends we haven’t seen in too long.
We’re slowly working our way down to Ft Lauderdale where we need to have a couple things looked at on the boat and find someone to replace one of the flybridge windows but we don’t need to be there for another week or so.