Lorenzo & Delois Johnson

We are anchored at one of our favorite places; Butler Island, SC.  This place is absolutely perfect, and we really enjoy spending an evening and night here.

We are getting close to home, and our trip will soon end.  Glad to be back home, but not ready for the fun to end.

We are traveling by ourselves now, and that too has it’s good and bad. 

We will have a long day tomorrow, but the end result is that we get to back into our slip at Holden Beach, and to see the grandkids. 

We are docked at St Johns Yacht Harbor near Charleston, SC.  We are visiting Looper Friends and ejoying their company.  This is a really nice marina, but it is located about 2 miles South of Charleston, so visits to the City are inconvient from this location.

Tomorrow, we will travel to Georgetown, SC and spend the night anchored behind Butler Island.  The weather has turned cool and the wind is forecast to be very slight, so we should have a pleasant night to anchor.

Should be back home on Wednesday.

We had a good travel day today.   We are in Port Royal SC, docked at a very nice marina.  The weather has turned to lots of rain in the afternoon, but should be clearing tomorrow. 

We will anchor in Church creek tomorrow night, at MM 488, about 20 miles South of Charleston.  We are still expecting to be back in Holden Beach no later than Thursday.

We are docked in Savannah Ga at Thunderbolt Marine.  We had a good day today, and we were successful in our passage through the Florida passage and through Hell Gate. 

We are expecting stormy weather tonight, and not sure what to expect tomorrow.  We are planning, weather permitting, to travel to a marina in Beaufort SC, and spend tomorrow night there. 

This trip is rapidly winding down, and now I am impatient to get back home.  We have been gone almost four months, and i am anxious to get started on my projects at home.

We have left Fernandina Beach.  We had a really good stay, and we will surely return.  Fernandina Beach is a really beautiful town with lots of history.  Seafood is King, and they actually have working shrimp boats.

To night we are rafted in a really beautiful spot.  It is cool enough that we will not need to run our generators to keep cool tonight.

Today, we were successful in transiting the little mud river without incident. Lots of shallow water.

We are docked at the Fernandina Harbor Marina in Fernandina Beach, Fl.  We arrived around 10 AM, filled the fuel tanks (ouch!!!) and was docked by 11 AM.  This place is filling fast since the MTOA rendezvous will be held here this week. 

Lil’ David has perfprmed flawlessly this trip.  I have lots of preventative maintenance to perform when we get home.  My boat TO-DO list is very long, and is mostly cosmetic items such as refinishing teak and waxing and buffing the fiberglass.

We have lots of our boating friends here.  We are looking forward to our week here.

We had a good day today.  Boat traffic was quite heavy, but we really enjoyed the excellent weather.

We arrived at our destination at around 1 PM, and we were all docked and settled in by 1:30.  We wil spend the night here, and continue to Fernandina tomorrow.  We are only 24 miles from the Marina in Fernandina. 

We will be leaving at dead low tide, so we must exercise extra caution to prevent grounding. 

Looking forward to our week in Fernandina Beach

We are docked at a private Yacht Club in Daytona Beach, Fl.  This is a very upscale marina, wih pool, hot tub, exercise room, etc.

We walked a few blocks to a very good restaurant for dinner, and had a good night overall.

We had a good travel day today.  We left the marina about 7:30 and found ourselves in the middle of a pack of sailboats with sails up.  The channel is very narrow at that point, so getting past the sailboats was sometimes tricky and tense.

The weather has cooled considerably, and we are really appreciative.

We arrived at the Hidden Harbor Marina in St Augustine at 1:30 PM.  Walked to the Winn Dixie to get bread and some medicine for Lois.  The air is heavy with smoke and ashes from a large woods fire West of us, and this is aggravating alergies.

Tomorrow, we will travel down to the St Johns River, and spend the night there at anchor.  We want to arrive in Fernandina early on Friday, so that we can fuel and then go to the Marina .

The trip home is going good, with very few problems.

This is a picture of our four boats showing us in our traveling positions.  The pictures were taken by a friend on his boat as we went past, and then He emailed the pictures to us.  Other boaters have named us the “Boat Parade”, and they are getting used to seeing us travelling together.

Tonight, we are docked at the Sunset Harbor Yacht Club.  This is a really swanky private club with swimming pool, hot club, exercise room, etc.  We could not stop at our planned stop due to construction work on the docks in the park.  Our backup plan was to anchor in Rockhouse creek, but we found that another boat was already anchored there.  There is not enough room for the four of us plus another boat in that anchorage.  We continued on for another 10 miles, and found that the Yacht Club had space available.

We walked a few blocks to Carribean Jacks and had a really great dinner.

Tomorrow, our destination is St Augustine, and we will stay there only one night.