Yesterday afternoon it was 71 degrees, this morning 38 after the cold front passage. You can see the mist drifting up from the 60degree waters.
I took advantage of the "relatively warm" waters to dive and clean the prop and our weed shoe connecting the keel to the rudder. The weed shoe is stainless steel and bottom paint does not stick well so it collects loads of barnacles.
I had hoped to clean out the thru hulls which are also a bit clogged with barnacles, but the strong current and low visibility made it impossible to swim down, locate, and hang on to a slippery hull while trying to clean a thru hull. That job will have to wait till we get further south and a no current day/time.
The ICW is slow going compared to offshore transits but, it provides the opportunity to see more sights than the endless sea. We watched this deer swim across the ICW in front of us, then struggle through the mud nearly up to his stomach to make his way to shore. He finally made it.
On our way to Charleston for a couple days (with shore power for the 30 degree nights).
