We spent two days in Port Royal, SC visiting with our friends Bill and Cheryl Mote. Bill was much recovered and looking and feeling like his normal self compared to when we visited him near the beginning of our trip, but Cheryl was now sporting an arm sling due to having recently had rotator cuff surgery. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant visit and we also got to meet their grandson Dillon who cheerfully went along with us old folks to eat at a new Mexican restaurant in Port Royal. The weather was hot and punctuated with late afternoon thunderstorms. On our last evening there we ate dinner together aboard kite and decided we preferred inside the boat to being out in the cockpit with all that lightening.We said goodbye and prepared for an early start the next morning.
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| Lyn, Cheryl and Bill aboard Kite |
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We were ready to make a push to get home, and a phone call that requested us to make an appointment for Monday afternoon just cemented those plans. The weather forecast for strong winds from the south and southwest helped us make the decision to stay in the ICW. Peter did some planning about the currents and tides to ensure that we would would approach a very shallow area in Georgia known as Hells Gate on a nearly full tide. Our destination was Thunderbolt Marina where we could tie up for the night and continue in the morning to reach Hells Gate at the optimum time. We were able to raise the head sail a few times to boost our motoring speed, but since we were mostly headed straight into the wind, we had to use just the motor most of the day. While we were doing some tacking in Calibogue sound, we were treated to the sight of quite a few boats giving parasail rides, but other than that, the day was rather uneventful. It was another hot day (a high of 92°), but fortunately there were no storms until we were safely tied up at the marina.
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| Parasailers in Calibogue Sound |
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Tomorrow's forecast is much the same as today's and we hope to get an early start and make it to an anchorage behind Doboy Island by evening.
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