30 hours after leaving Charleston, we're arriving in St Simons Sound, Ga, passing by St Simons Lighthouse. Fairly uneventful transit (the best kind), basically a motoring trip as the winds were light and just enough forward of the beam to not allow sailing. As usual, a bit of traffic at the Savannah Channel which we transit across between 11pm and midnight when you leave Charleston in the morning. We had five cargo vessels coming and going to dodge through. Only one was a close pass and he made the necessary maneuver to pass astern of us as we poked along with the right of way at our 5 knots.
We arrived at the St Simons channel at the same time as this car carrier heading up to the BMW plant in Brunswick. Note that our camera makes these ships look a long ways away, not the hundred yards he actually was. We transit outside the deep water channel and stay out of these guys way.
We're anchored off Morning Star Marina on Golden Isle just off St Simons Island (which is to the right of the bridge in the photo). We have ten days to explore the area around the Sound before we have to return to Yorktown for February. We plan to take our bikes ashore and tour around St Simons Island tomorrow.
