Names to Strike Fear

Names to Strike Fear

Monday, April 12, 2021

Another early start saw us underway by about 7:15 am.  There are sections of the waterway called things like St. Catherine’s Sound or Florida Passage.  These sound quite pleasant, even inviting.  Then there are the sections called Hell’s Gate.  You are expecting a rough time of it that’s the itinerary for the day.  So it was today.  Hell’s Gate was swiftly followed by a section called the Skidaway Narrows.  Often the passages called “Narrows” or “Cuts” are what might be described as harrowing.  Fortunately we timed our trip to be either side of high tide so that we didn’t have to be overly worried about the depths in these sections. With an eight-foot tide even quite shoal sections should be passable at high water.  Directly after transiting the Skidaway Narrows (a very winding, narrow section of water) we docked at the Isle of Hope Marina.  Here we were able to fill with diesel, pump out the holding tank and get rid of trash.  Both the docking and un-docking went smoothly, helped by genius piloting from the captain and good line handling from the marina staff.  After another five or so miles we arrived at the Herb River and got anchored by about noon.  

After many days deep in the marshes with little sign of development, it’s clear that we are getting close to Savannah.  Today we motored by many houses and docks.  Even this little River has houses and docks further along.  Tomorrow we will cross the Savannah River.  No doubt we will see increasing traffic on the waterway as well.   

Gloria

32 00.984 N, 81 01.876 W

The following Shots were taken last night after we had already published yesterdays blog

The unsettled weather finally moved out yesterday early evening, leading to a beautiful calm sunset on Buckhead Creek (70 mm lens, ISO 400, 1/200 second, F8 - two vertical format shots stitched together to create this ~ square image)

This abstract shot was created "in camera" not by manipulation in Photoshop. It is of the same view as the previous photo but a long exposure, hand held and rotating the camera and lens (70 mm lens, ISO 30, 2 seconds at F22)