“On the road...ahem, waterway...again!

Traveling the coast of Georgia on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a twisty-turny affair. At 7 miles an hour...your fast-paced walk...it takes three six-hour days of chugging to get from St. Mary’s to Savannah. The marsh land stretches out on both sides with creeks and fingerlets of water winding off into nowhere or somewhere every so often. After departing Brunswick Landing Marina, with its protected docks and welcoming atmosphere, we had three anchoring choices ahead of us. The marinas along that section are rustic and well off the ICW down some of those creeks. A 5-mile side-trip is maybe not the best plan for making progress.

It actually becomes a 10 mile detour! Two shrimp boats came out of one of those side creeks. It was a bit intimidating to share a confined space with the wings that extend far out on each side of these sizable work boats. We passed by two of the recommended anchoring spots because it was too early in the day. When we turned into the Wahoo River, we parted ways with a 40’ Heritage East Trawler “Companion” that had fallen in behind us early in the day.

Ron and Kathrin had been good company as we chatted on the VHF working channel through out the day. We had just begun to make our way up the Wahoo when we were greeted by a pod of dolphins. They escorted us up around the first bend in the river and we dropped anchor in their midst. Fantastic! The green-bodied horse flies that arrived in droves as the evening sky began to pink were not so fantastic. The screens protecting “the back porch” were our saving grace. Through them we were able to watch a mother wild pig and her four piglets root around on the river back. It doesn’t get much better than that!