By Jove we are in Georgia

We crossed the St Mary's River early this morning
which means we are in Georgia.

Fort Geroge Florida before the Georgia border

Us submarine Naval base King's Bay in Georgia

We fueled at the Florida Petroleum dock after spending the night tied up there.  Not a great night's sleep with fishing boats leaving at all hours of the night and bouncing us off the pilings. North Star can take it, she is unscathed. We paid $3.72 a gallon for diesel fuel and because we were headed north, we did not pay a sales tax.


The wind is up today so crossing some of the sounds was a little lumpy, lots of splashing but bearable.  The ICW in Georgia is made up of rivers and creeks and crosses many sounds that go right out to the ocean so it gets rough in those areas.  We took a small craft route through the Satilla river but with the shoaling, we decided we would rather brave the sounds, less stressful than a potential grounding.
The scenery continues to be flat marsh grass areas with little habitation. There are lots of anchorages and of course marinas but we chose to anchor in Jove Creek off the Mackay River (N31 1.0149 and W81 25.1501). There is not much wind protection with the flat low land but there is no wake from boats.  The tide is 7 feet here so we will see if we calculated correctly.  Many people anchor in enough water only to find out they are high and dry at low tide.  Low tide is at 7:00 so lots of daylight left to move if we got it wrong.
We are back dodging crab pots, tides and listening to shrimp nibble the hull at night.  It sounds like bacon frying.  The dolphins are also back and there is lots of birding to be enjoyed.
We will continue our trek north tomorrow.

Jove Creek anchorage