Departure!!
I stole these photos from Cathy of our departure (after hugs goodbye of course - hope they'll catch up with us in a few weeks).
Duane untying the dock lines (we take the dock lines with us).
Ed waving goodbye as we back out of the slip. A beautiful day!
Sojourn on the way south!
We decided based on the weather forecast to head on south, not stopping to meet up with our sailing club outing. The weather window has tightened to probably 3 days, so the extra day we'd spend with the club would cause us to miss the good sailing weather.
Anyhoo - we stopped at River Dunes for a quick top up with diesel.
Sights along the intercoastal as usual:
A huge barge carrying phosphates takes up a good portion of the waterway - and this is a particularly wide area near the Core Creek bridge.
Birdies enjoying the sunshine.
A sport fishing boat making a huge wake.
Nearing Beaufort - I always enjoy seeing these weird structures. I looked it up - they store fertilizer.
This is a bunch of those huge barges anchored.
We were out the Beaufort inlet around 4pm - lumpy seas but not terribly cold. We'll do our 3 hour loose watch schedule overnight.
Just checked out your Pin, doing well. I see that Persephone is just ahead of you but slightly more seaward. They’re coming into St Johns river, Jax. We might see them if they come this far up river.
ReplyDeleteIt hurt my heart to watch you leave without us, but we are peddling as fast as we can to get ready to leave soon.
ReplyDeleteBON VOYAGE!
ReplyDeleteLove,
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