Our morning sunrise

 Check out the blow hole on this guy!

Different dolphin!

 I've been doing some major cleaning all day ~ so I cleaned myself

up and relaxed for a bit!

Here we go again!

This one came up from the side of the boat!

We were walking back from the front of the boat when

all of sudden there he was!

 Fishing boat

We must have seen a half of dozen of these boats

today; it's a wonder there are any fish in the waters!!

 See the black dot about an inch from the bottom of this photo?

It is a little butterfly that was racing us, and he won!!

 See the dolphin in the water!

This is me getting pictures now; can't you tell!??!

 Another one!

Why can't they come up for me; not that it matters, I'm

always missing the shot!

 My Bobbie making believe he is asleep while I'm at the wheel :-)

Blue Heron!!

Same name, different boat!

Still thinkin' of you Larry!

 We had a couple drops of rain and this
beautiful rainbow shows up!

Happy Hour on the front of Storymaker

Our sunset!

We have dropped anchor on the Frederica River about 10 miles north of Brunswick, Ga. 

There were a lot of clouds today but the temperature was still good; somewhere in the low to mid 70's.  It is supposed to cool down and winds are supposed to pick up tomorrow.  Saturday is a high of 59, ouch!  We will be staying put if that is the case; the winds are also supposed to be 25 to 30 knots.  See no reason to put ourselves through any of that nonsense!

 This is a new 38' Lagoon

Very, very loud generator.  It is

in the front hull....hmmmmm....

That's where we were thinking about

putting ours, whenever that happens....

 This morning just prior to our leaving

What happened?  The sky hasn't had a cloud

in it for 4 days!

Parris Island

Parris Island is a former census-designated-place (CDP), currently a portion of Port Royal in Beaufort County, South Carolina. The population was 4,841 at the 2000 census. As defined by the U. S. Census Bureau.  Parris Island is included within the Beaufort Urban Cluster and the larger Hilton Head-Beaufort Micropolitan Statistical Area. The area was annexed by the town of Port Royal on October 11, 2002. It is perhaps best known for its U. S. Marine Corps training facility Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island where about 16,000 Marines pass through boot camp every year.  Yes Mike, I'm thinking of you right now!  Go Marines!

Closer shot

 Meet Felix!

He's anchored for the day

 Bob said "There's a guy over there waving at us" so I grab

my camera to take a picture and waved at the same time.

I have to admit ~ it was a good laugh!

 Now this boat has a lot going on with it.  I don't

think there's anything he doesn't have!

 Nice woodie!

 The tall pilings next to the house were not here last year....

I wonder what it is going to be???

Our sunset last night

It was another great day on the water.  Dolphins were everywhere again.  The weather was gorgeous, all sun and about 84 degrees!  Tomorrow it is suppose to change.  It's going to start clouding up and cooling down.  The winds are going to be picking up for a couple of days so we may stay put in Fernadina Beach.

 These are left over dead bugs that were out last night biting 

the heck out of us!  However, we wised up, we brought out the

Deet and candles!  They were no longer an issue :-)

 By the time I got the camera ready we were already passed the

marker.  I had to zoom in to get this shot, that's why it's not clear...

but...you can definitely tell it's a Bald Eagle!

 This is about the 3rd time we have seen dolphin this morning...

I finally have some sort of evidence!  If you look in front of the splash

in the water you can see the dolphin!

Or, you can look at Bob's shot.  He's a show-off!  

But at least we have a good shot finally!!

 Coming into Beaufort, SC

 Marina where we filled up at

 Sun setting

Our sunset!

Well today turned out to be totally different than what I expected.  We were supposed to fill up in Thunderbolt tomorrow and the next thing I know, Bob is like, I think we should fill up here now, and that way I don't have to put gas in the tanks from the jugs and tomorrow we won't have to stop.   Now that's fine and dandy, but I need like an hours notice or something....telling me as we are pulling in doesn't work for me to well...I'm scurrying around grabbing fenders out of the forward lockers, grabbing lines to throw, trash to throw away, hoses to fill the water tank, and panicking that I can't get it all done in 3 minutes!

Then, to top it all off, I decide to do laundry!  That was not part of the plan at all!  If you didn't notice in the next to the last picture I put on the blog you will see that Beaufort now has mooring balls.  So we got a ball for the night.  Of course the usual things came with it, laundry, showers, internet (not!), but the best of all, they have a courtesy car you can use for an hour.  So, while I was doing laundry, Bob went to the grocery store, hardware store, and post office; now it can't get any better than that!

We were in dolphin heaven today!  They were everywhere!  I have a great video shot of one that was riding our wake under the water.  He kept turning on his side and back over until he took off.  Bob had one on his side of the boat that was actually riding our wake upside down!  No pictures though.

Tomorrow we will be in Georgia.  Time to go on-line again and see what there rules are about fishing and crabbing!

 I'm up having morning coffee on the bow of the boat

These little guys keep coming up and going down in the water

in unison with each other...so cute!

 Peaceful

 Whoops!  Something scared them!

 This is my view with coffee!

 This is me enjoying my view with coffee !

 Bob went out to find our crab pots again!

 He loves that dinghy!

 I love his style!

 Bob joined me for morning coffee,

but now it's time to go!

 What was that!

 We are getting ready to pass Goat Island

 This is the beginning of Goat Island

The next several pictures are houses along the waterway

This is the end of Goat Island

This house is the tip!

Our mast is 62' high....hmmmmm....

 OK, let's go!

 Bob said he thought there was at least another foot

 between us and the bridge...personally I don't see it....maybe a few inches!

 You gotta love the waterfowl!

 Not one, but two, 38' Lagoons...duplicates of each other

Another beautiful day on the water; not a cloud in the sky!

Another favorite spot!  

Elliott's Cut!

Remember last year, we rolled through that place, we 

even turned around and did it a second time because it was

so much fun!  This year it was pretty slow goin'!

See the turtle!?!

Houses along Elliott's Cut

Yup!  He still needs to redo his retaining wall!

Coming out of Elliott's Cut

We are anchored now and taking a nap....

The next thing we know we are awakened by two 

large bumps on the boat...we get up to find a 30' dead tree

that had floated down and hit us right in the middle of the boat

on both hulls....

This is the port hull...

Starboard hull view

Bob trying to do something with the outrageous current....

We decided to drink rum and wait for the slack tide....

Worked out well...it floated right out and we took it to the 

other side of the lagoon!

Jayne & Gary gave us these pillows, only they were pink

when we got them....today I decided to cover them with boatie material!

Ahhh....this one is Bob's :-)

Our sunset tonight

Simply beautiful!

OK, here's my theory.  Three years ago when we came here we saw at least 30 dolphin.  So this being the first time here, we just assumed it was this way every year.  But last year when we came we only saw 2 dolphin.  What's up?!!?  Theory:  This year we come and we saw 3 dolphin, 2 adults and 1 baby...awwww....so, I think we saw a family pod of dolphin 3 years ago and they were out finding new homes for the kids that were ready to move out on their own.  The two we saw last year were the ones that made this there home, and this year they have a baby!  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!  And yes, we will be back next year to see what it brings!

While Bob drove all day I did a lot of sewing.  I covered pillows, sewed a much needed hole in his blue robe, put a hem in a pair of jeans that were way too long, and several other things were tended to!  I finished just in time to drop anchor!

The nap didn't go as well as we hoped, but the rum was perfect as always!