We left St. Augustine fairly early, with the plan of going up the ICW. There was no wind, and as we were about to turn north onto the ICW we made a last minute decision to go off shore instead. It turned out to be a good decision. We were able to go further than we thought we would, and we missed a storm too.
We traveled up the coast to St. Mary's inlet, it was flat calm the whole way with pretty much no wind, so we just motored. Along the way we saw a shark. Chris saw a big splash in the water, and when I went up to the bow to look, I saw a dorsal fin and a tail fin out of the water. He was about 7ft long and swam right next to the boat as we went by. I am not even going to try and guess what kind of shark it was, I just know it wasn't a great white, but it still makes me wish I never saw the movie "Jaws". The whole time all I could hear in my head was the jaws theme "da...dum.......da...dum.........da...dum"!
When we got to St. Mary's inlet, the dark clouds where right where we wanted to go, with more lightning in one storm than I have seen in the past year. We turned around and went back out to sea to wait till it was past. The storm moved south pretty quickly, we got some rain and a really good lightning show from a distance, and an even better sun set.
We ended up anchoring right off of Cumberland Is., and it turned out to be the most peaceful, picturesque anchorage.
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