June 12, 2010

I wish we could have spent some time visiting Cumberland Is., but we want to be a little further north so we don't worry so much about the weather. We decided to motor up the ICW, for the day, and see how far we could get. I wished later that we had gone off shore. It was so hot, which made me very grumpy, and I am sure by the end of the day Chris wanted to push me overboard. It was so hot it took to much energy to talk, plus the fact that Dahlia is cutting her top front tooth, and wanted to be held all day long. That didn't help the heat factor.
I don't have much to say about the ICW in Georgia, it was just swamp. We ended up anchoring in swamp lands just north of St. Simon Is., and I don't care to ever anchor in that area ever again. It was buggy, and the tidal range is a ridiculous 8ft. We got there at low tide and anchored in 5 ft, and had to keep putting out chain as the tide came in with what seemed to be a 4-5 knot current. We actually left the GPS on to see if we were dragging by looking at our speed over ground meter. We didn't drag, but I killed a fair amount of bugs though out our time there, which is enough to make me not want to go back.