Category Archives: 2025 Blog

5/7/2025 Seafood

We started the day watching a young alligator trolling for breakfast between finger piers in Thunderbolt. Twenty-eight miles and five hours later, we were impressed by a deep-sea catch being landed at Skull Creek, Hilton Head Island, where we’ll be docked tonight and tomorrow. The charter captain said they’d been fishing the Gulf Stream. IContinue reading “5/7/2025 Seafood”

5/6/2025 Charnal Rose

The Bonaventure Cemetery is a mile away from the marina. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places and worth a visit for its natural beauty- oaks and river bluffs; its statuary – angels, a 6-year-old Victorian girl named Gracie, and the Bird Girl made famous by John Berendt’s novel of Low Country voodoo andContinue reading “5/6/2025 Charnal Rose”

5/5/2025 Thunderbolt

Short day today: 32 miles from Kilkenny Marina & Fish Camp to Bahia Blue Marina in Thunderbolt, Georgia. I drove while we moored and unmoored; some while we were in the ICW; and the fun part, going up on plane – 2500 rpm, 19 mph – as we turned into the Ogeechee River. It’s wideContinue reading “5/5/2025 Thunderbolt”