Tag Archives: boat-life

5/23/2025 Running in Circles

Sometimes life feels like a traffic circle: a roundabout where you’re stuck on the inside lane. I’m not sure that analogy holds up with Oriental’s tiny yellow traffic circle, but you get the idea. It has been that kind of twenty-four hours. I think Pete and Katie felt it, too. It began with yesterday’s highContinue reading “5/23/2025 Running in Circles”

5/21/2025 Wandering

Last night we had a quiet dinner in Beaufort’s very loud Mazcalito Restaurant. Pete and I are too engine-noise deaf to wander into so much noise and still expect to converse. The company was still good, as was a fat plate of shrimp-and-pork-nugget supreme nachos we four shared, and frosty 22-ounce mugs of Dos EquisContinue reading “5/21/2025 Wandering”

5/19/2025 Wrong Turn

The day started at 0520. Katie needed to go ashore. Pete and I wanted to reach the Onslow Bridge before the 0700 opening. The anchorage was quiet when we dinghied to the Mile Hammock boat ramp, where we found friends on the same mission. Katie ran around for a few minutes. We all caught up.Continue reading “5/19/2025 Wrong Turn”

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”