I thought it would be a good idea to remember the beach...on this cold, rainy day. This is another view of Jekyll Island beach from yesterday. It wasn't very warm, actually it was really chilly. But it is a beautiful beach.
Today we put insulation, against the cold breeze coming through the pilot house hatch, back in to help keep us warm, relatively speaking.
Now I know 56 degrees is a heat wave in some parts of the USA but in GA on April 10, 56 degrees is cold. Add rain all day long and it is really cold.
We put the insulation back in, put on our long pants, long sleeve shirts, shoes with SOCKS, hooded sweat shirts and vests! Almost warm.
We decided last night to leave after the thunderstorms past, about noon today. This morning we reconsidered: leave early before low tide because the water is really skinny on the "other side of the bridge," stay another day and go outside with Fordyce as our leader, stay another day (we'd be cold at the marina, too) and wait for sun. Studied the various weather channels we consult and by that time it was too late to leave before low tide. Nothing like procrastination to make our decision. That and the thunder sound when we said "okay, let's go!" Then the weather gods spoke."GrrrrumbleBoomRattleRolloolllll." We called Terri , dock master (mistress ?) asking permission to remain until tide changed. Yes, of course.
Yes, time to cook breakfast, scrambled eggs with toast and jam.
We left the beach behind. Left the dock and wound our way through the skinny water, through the rain.
We watched the charts carefully but, really, the water was deep most of the time past north of the bridge...well past north of the bridge.
The rain made the visibility sketchy but only us foolish people were out today.
We and the Coast Guard. Note the large navigational buoys in the mid section of the boat.
Our view for tonight. Only pelicans as neighbors though there was a dolphin here as we were anchoring.
I'm a bit cold and tired. I was out in the rain handling lines and fenders and pumping out our rain-drenched dinghy. The soup and the hot toddy have helped but I might curl up with a book and a blanket and/or go to bed early.
We could also bring out out new-in-January propane heater...but it is packed away so nicely.
Amelia is definitely sleeping in. She's been curled close to which ever one of us was not at the helm all day long. She pays attention to low atmospheric pressure better than her humans.
Looking East now I can see the edge of the clouds...or the edge of clear sky. Supposed to be warm tomorrow.
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