Day 2 April 22

Left Skull Creek, eyelids dragging, but I did remember to pull up the anchor, so the boat did fine. We traveled about 17 miles to Beaufort’s City Marina. Had our first experience tying to a mooring ball. There were no pictures and non witnesses, thankfully, as we didn’t exactly tackle that one with gracefulness. We lunched at the Blackstone Cafe and enjoyed the best fries, which weren’t fried, but baked. Very crispy and grease-less. Awesome.

Covered another 20 miles after lunch and anchored at Rock Creek. The cut was narrow and shallow at low tide, but we neither saw or heard from anyone one passing by until 8 or so the next morning. We were dead tired and were in bed by 9 pm, sleeping like a college freshman who just finished rush. Amanda did wake me up about midnight to witness the almost full moon rising up over the marsh in a ball of fire that took our breath away. A nice reminder that our God never slumbers, nor sleeps. But having that peace of mind, I quickly continued mine.

Day 1 April 22

We got away from Savannah a little later than we intended, after enjoying a wonderful Easter Service at our home church, Compassion Christian and having lunch with Clint, Mali, and Stella. They brought us to Morningstar Marina for the official send off.

Some were not as excited about our leaving as we were.

Our progress was a little delayed at Fields Cut just after getting into South Carolina because we saw 2 boats sitting on shoals at low tide. After watching for an hour, dead low tide was on us, so I made the decision to attempt to creep by them, since water was only going to be rising, right? As we approached, even with my rookie navigator eyes, I saw they had approached the markers from the wrong side. We slipped by them (by maybe 30 feet) and never touched bottom. Got lucky. Hopefully, we didn’t use all that up on the first day.

We stopped in Skull Creek not too far North of Hilton Head where the RBC Heritage was just wrapping up. Being our first night out on anchor, we learned the boat makes LOTS of noises. Haunted houses are much more comfortable. Little sleep on our first night out. But it was a beautiful night, with a gorgeous sunset.