Our plan last Thursday was to anchor in Fernandina Beach and wait for the kids from Tallahassee to arrive on Friday (and Saturday and Sunday)... We've stayed there before, on the ocean in a nice hotel. The beach is beautiful, and the downtown quaint.
Well...what we didn't know was that the anchorage in beautiful Fernandina Beach is home to the two largest paper mills in the region. Right on the waterway.
Wouldn't you know it... at about 5 a.m. the wind shifted and we were engulfed in a choking plume of stench. So we packed it up and moved to St. Mary's GA as soon as breakfast was over. (Just up the "road"- and no paper mills).
The folks in the anchorage were so friendly. As you motor up, they call out, "Welcome to St. Mary's!". We made a new friend named Roger, from New Hampshire. And we greeted our first boatload of visitors (Kailee and the girls) right before lunch.
The girls got acclimated to life on the boat pretty quickly- you'll notice the trash can on the shelf behind Ted...that's not usually there, I promise. The hatch covers aren't always in the doors, either, but Kinley wouldn't stay off the steps or out of the garbage... so life had to be a little rearranged. :)
On Saturday there was a festival in the park... Avery got to make a crayon rubbing... And visitors #4 and 5 arrived! Jamie and Josh joined us...
and we took a little sail to Cumberland Island (where Avery loved the shells and Josh learned about Horseshoe crabs.)
On Sunday, David joined us- we took him back out to Cumberland Island, but we couldn't anchor off the nice beach because of the current... we ended up in quicksand mud (and didn't stay long!)
It was so good to be with our kids (and their kids)!- the weekend was over all too soon. Our next stop was a desolate creek - all by ourselves- in the middle of a marsh. We miss 'em!... but forge onwards.
Tonight we're in Savannah. As I type I can hear dolphins "chuffing" right under me. It's quiet, and it's beautiful... hard to know which is better. I do miss those babies! But the peacefulness of this still night is awesome, too. Guess we praise God that we're able to have a little bit of both!
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