Salt marsh

 12/7- It was an easy day today as we only had 20 miles to go. We are setting up to head into Jekyll Island for the weekend and we didn’t want to get there too early. The tide was low at 10:30 this morning and we had another shallow spot to cross fairly soon. The Little Mud River had only about 4 feet of water at mean low water so we tried to play the tide a bit to give us some room. Mean low water is the average of the lowest water in this spot over a period of years. It is usually what is printed on the chart. Tide levels are all given by how much they are over or under the mean low water level. Of course there are other factors such as wind that can affect water levels. The tide levels are also predicted and that does not mean the predictions will necessarily come to pass. And so with all this knowledge we cautiously turn our boat down the river hopping to come out on the other side. We of course are following the track of Bob423 who has mapped all the best routes out.  We cruised right over everything with a couple of feet to spare. 

   We turned into Jove Creek and dropped the hook. This is another salt marsh. It is hard to describe how open and exposed we feel in these marshes. Standing on the boat makes us the tallest thing around. You can see other boats coming for quite some distance. I have tried to take a photo but none of them can portray the vastness of the marshes. Anyway we are attached to the bottom of the river on a nice evening just outside of Brunswick. Hopefully we will stay that way as the tide flips us back and forth every 6 hours and 12 minutes. 

   We actually have another boat in here with us tonight and we did see more traffic today than we have seen the last 3 days. We had company traveling in front and behind us all day. I’m guessing it will get considerably busier tomorrow as we near the city. 



The birds by the way are white pelicans. These birds are different from the brown pelican in that they don’t dive (or crash land) into the water. They team up and herd fish and then just dip their beaks in and scoop them up. I had previously thought these birds were gannets but a closer examination proved they were pelicans. 

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