14-15 Nov

14 Nov, 0830 hrs, depart Two Way Fish camp Marina, beautiful

sunny day, lots of boats travelling south.

One "faux pas" in our passage today, turned left and not right

traversing through a sound put us in the Atlantic, but only for

a very brief period, we turned and retraced our steps,

and got on the "right track".

If you are not vigil in your navigation, you will foul up,

lucky for us it was very brief.  Check and double check!!!

We got to St. Mary’s River, note to Skipper Bob publication,

its not at mile marker 708 or MM 710, its more like 712,

and you make a right turn past Green Buoy,# 29 going S,  the

buoys have been renumbered, so watch the charts, and turn

up the river, everything after that is ok.

We got tied up to the "T dock, 1 space available, lots of

other boaters helping with the lines. 6 hrs tie up..ok, we will

have do set the anchor later after our supper.

The reason for coming here is for the "deep fried succulent,

fresh jumbo shrimp, all you can eat at "Lang’s restaurant". I could hardly

wait to dig in. Got to the rest., CLOSED on Sunday and Mon

open on Tue to Thur for lunch, and Fri & Sat supper only.

GRRR

So no shrimp from Lang’s, but found the "Riverside Rest" down the

block. Its not the one in Bedford NS.

I did have my fried shrimp, and Scott had his blackened shrimp

both were very good. Lemon meringue pie for Lane for dessert

yum yum  :) That eased the pain of "all you can eat shrimp"  :)

Orders to go for tomorrow lunch... why cook along the way

when it can be catered!!!!!.

Its now 1945hrs, and we are still at the dock, we hope not

to get kicked off, its dark out and I do not want to set in the dark,

oh we have engine troubles, and can't leave, that will work, I hope??

Anyway there are two other boats here, and I do not see them leaving.

I guess we won't either.

Oh by the way, our charts, "nobletec", "Navigator Light" and our Standard

Horizon, with latest updated charts, did not have the actual harbor,

so we ran in blind, so to speak, after the last mark, and

watch the depth sounder, well things worked out well,

lots of boats at anchor,  29 ft at the "T" dock.

For a minute there I thought that we would drop of the end of the earth.

I can't recall who had said that, but it does not matter now  :)

                                   

"HISTORY LESSON"

                        "taken from the St. Mary’s City Guide"

"St. Mary’s is the 2nd oldest continuously inhabited city in North America,

after St.Augustine, Florida. The city was first settled in the mid

1500s by the Spanish. The Town was established on Dec 5th, 1792,

by an act in the state legislature, and incorporated in Nov 1802.

Pleasure boaters from around the world are discovering what the

tall ships of the 1700 and 1800s knew long ago. St. Mary’s is an

exceptional harbor, intriguing history, and friendly people."

15 Nov 0800 depart St. Mary’s anchorage, making our way to

St. Augustine(MM 775), Florida. Oh by the way we entered Florida waters

at 0930 hrs.

At the mouth of the Amelia River, we saw yellow propylene rope floating,

as we went by it was a whole spool, so we picked it up, what

a find, must be at least 200 ft of 3/4 rope, now that what you

call scavenging :)...Wayne C eat your heart out  :) Nice twine

It was a gorgeous day today, and arrived at St. Augustine at 1630 hrs

through out he hook, and in for the night. Those odd buildings are Nuclear sub repairs sights.

The paper mills are in Ferdernia, FL. A group of white geese???

Stuff that floated down the river at two way fish camp, the current will take it away when it changes.