Day 5: St Marys to Jekyll Island

3 hr 50 min. A short one today. We rise without a rush into a totally still morning and wander 'uptown' to breakfast at one of St Marys' numerous eating houses. Graeme wonders how come such a small town has as many eateries and bars as it has.

Preston remains aboard and gets ready for our departure, by which time a breeze has arrived. We slip away and curve back down the St Marys River. At the entrance we turn left and head up Cumberland Sound towards a restart of the ICW. In the process we pass the entrance to the East River and the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. There's a boat tied up to one of the wharves and is partly covered and being worked on. A Navy security launch sits nearby to ensure that we don't come away from the ICW and towards the base.

Four short hours up the ICW via the East River and Jekyll Sound brings us to the Jekyll Harbor Marina, where it's rush hour and we're number three for docking. Preston goes off to run an errand and G & L and I get the marina's free golf cart and trundle off to do a circuit of the island and see what we can see. It's something of a resort and convention island, with excellent RV and camping places plus up-market hotels. We arrive back at the marina in time for Happy Hour and dinner at Zachary's Riverhouse.

After cheese grits with blackened shrimp (moi), blackened mahi-mahi fish, and hush puppies (fried corn-bread balls), and greek salad with blackened shrimps (Lorraine) and a few local beers (GH and moi), we waddle back to the boat.

Tomorrow will be different...Baca lagi