Day 276 – Jekyll Island to anchorage at New Teakettle Creek - April 7, 2012

We had a beautiful travel day today.  Staying with our plan to travel during mid-tides and higher, we departed just after 7:00am and were anchored by noon.  The current in New Teakettle Creek is quite strong (due to the nine foot tide change) and will switch directions two times while we are here.  We spent the afternoon relaxing and enjoying our surroundings.  We watched the tide change and the anchor stayed strongly hooked.  Fred got up in the middle of the night and checked our anchor again after our next second tide change – again, everything was just fine.

This portion of the Atlantic ICW is certainly different than the ICW in Florida.  We are traveling through salt marshes with very few trees, just lots of marsh grass.  There are quite a few of inlets from the Atlantic Ocean, but most of them are not “Class 1” inlets and they require local knowledge if you want to use them.  Our anchorage is in the middle of a salt marsh – when the tide is in, we are riding high and you can see a very long way.  When it is out, the muddy shores around the marsh grass are very visible.  We had an ultra high tide tonight and as we were checking out the moon and stars before we turned in for the night we realized that most of the marsh grass was underwater.  It looked like we were anchored in the middle of a huge lake instead in a small creek – it was very eerie.
 
            Miles: 35.0      Bridges: 2        Locks: 0

traveling through the salt marsh

most of the Georgia coast has looked just like this - a huge salt marsh

sometimes there are high spots where trees can grow, but mostly it
is salty water and grass

the shrimp boat Adventure heading out Doboy Sound

our anchorage in New Teakettle Creek at high tide

our anchorage in New Teakettle Creek at low tide

a close up of low tide in New Teakettle Creek

just after sunset in New Teakettle Creek