May 19 Cumberland Island To Brunswick Landing Marina

May  19   Cumberland Island to Brunswick

Early morning start for us with anchor up at 7:15.   Came in easy with just some mud on the anchor  to wash off.   Pretty uneventful trip.  Looking to get to Brunswick Landing at noon for slack tide.  Cruise through the marshes behind Cumberland,  then cross the relatively flat waters of St. Andrews Sound,  laze our way around  the back side of Jekyll Island and then out the Brunswick River.

Our big excitement for the day  was crossing paths with the car carrier ship "Liberty Promise".   We had been tracking it  with our AIS  as we approached  the river and they were inbound from the ocean.  AIS had us on an intersecting path so being the prudent skipper I am I throttled back to insure he stayed in front of us.  We didn't have AIS on the old boat and it's been interesting to see targets  show up as well as being able to see their direction and possible intersects.  Click their icon and you find our their name, size, destination, etc.  Pretty neat!   As it passed it had "Liberty" painted large on the side.  Dang advertisers.  I couldn't get that insurance jingle out of my head for the rest of the day.  

Liberty! Liberty!  Liiibertyyy!

We've stayed at Brunswick Landing Marina before so knew the layout.   Fuel dock on the end of the first T head.   Pretty easy side tie.  Took on 400 gallons of fuel at $5.50 a gallon and still not topped off!.  Quite a change  from our last visit before finishing the loop when we paid an even $2.00.    Fuel, pump out and then backed into our slip for the night.  Wind on our port side trying to do  a port side finger pier tie took a little more effort but we got tied up just fine.  Just when you start thinking you've got a decent sized boat  wouldn't you know someone has to come along to keep it in perspective as a 90' Cheoy Lee  docked behind us. 

Our little boat on the right

With our early arrival we had some time to explore downtown which is just a couple blocks off the waterfront.  They have really tried to make it a nice destination with interesting well  maintained old buildings, several small urban parks, and many thriving stores and restaurants.  Hot, hot, hot day so we opted to hit the new Silver Bluff Brewery at 4 o'clock when it opened.  Arrived to a sign "Closed for Special Event 4-5".  So we sat on a park bench in the heat, but at least in the shade, for an hour. At 5:05  they let us and several other patrons in  generously providing us with a ticket for a free drink.  So rather than a flight we just got drinks - Martha a pink lemonade seltzer  to cool her down.  I had the Beekeeper DIPA at 8.4% ABV.   A nice sipping beer.    Then we tried one of the new restaurants in town - The Southern Table.  Martha's dish was a unique twist on shrimp and grits and John enjoyed a spicy Chicken Creole. Then back to the marina where Martha decided the free laundry was too good to pass up and  did two loads while John chatted it up with our Canadian dock mates on their Swedish sailboat  just recently back from the Caribbean. 

 

Sunset in Brunswick, GA

Journey for May 19