Odds and Ends...

Georgia has some of the highest tides on the ICW, up to 9 feet at times. It makes anchoring interesting. If you anchor at mid or high tide in water only a couple of feet deeper than your draft you might be very surprised once the tide has gone out completely. We try to watch the state of the tide pretty carefully. We are anchored in a small river just off the ICW. We came in at low tide and had plenty of water but we couldn’t see much over either bank of the river. When the tide came up if flooded all the surrounding lowlands, and our view improved dramatically. It was also windy enough today (average 15 to 20 kts, gusting to 30 kts) that most of the time the boat stayed oriented to the wind, not the changing tides.

When we were coming across the Gulf Stream south of Cape Canaveral I spotted a rather interesting notice on the chart:
“The heavy dashed magenta lines represent the limits of launch hazard areas associated with the majority of launches from Cape Canaveral. Launch debris may fall within these areas.” This notice was a ways south of the “Unexploded Ordnance” regions we passed through. Just a couple more things we never learned about sailing on Lake Erie!

In the Bahamas the day time temps and night time temps never varied by more than 5 or 6 degrees - maybe 10 degrees max if a front came through.  This morning the temperature was under 60, while yesterday it had been almost 90 degrees.

Now that we are back in the ICW the water looks more like coffee or tea - so much for the crystal clarity where you could see the bottom in over 20 feet of water.

The hand-wind mechanism of the Hope Town lighthouse.

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Rush hour - Man O War Cay

Our view at low tide at our last anchorage

Our view at high tide