Savannah, GA

We walked into town at Thunderbolt this morning, stopped for breakfast at a local place, then went to Piggly Wiggly, Home Depot, Radio Shack, and an auto parts store. We found several of the things on our lists of things we needed. The bad thing is that we had to lug the stuff we purchased at all those places back to the boat. On our way back, we came across a woman pushing a shopping cart with all of her purchases in it, and wished that we had one. Amazingly, she said she always brought one home with her from the grocery store and didn't feel bad about it because they sent a truck around the neighborhood to pick them up. And sure enough, we saw the truck with several carts loaded on it later as we continued walking, still wishing we had one.

So we took on some fuel and water and left the dock around noon, heading to Savannah, 12 miles up the river. No sooner had we turned into the river off the ICW then we had a call from an inbound river pilot saying he was heading in our direction and planning to meet an outbound ship coming down the river in about 10 minutes. So we were plodding along against the river current and fearing an encounter of an uncommon kind. You might say we were on high alert for 30 minutes or so. It turned out there was plenty of room in the river for all of us and all we had to worry about was the crazy wakes the two ships created when they met and passed us. But they sure were big and the river wasn't nearly as wide as you'd think.

River Street, Savannah

So now we are tied up to the city dock between a 65 foot yacht and a 105 foot yacht, feeling a bit small. It's a beautiful old town with incredible live oaks growing right along the river front but the accommodations leave a little to be desired. No showers or even a bathroom, and the internet sucks. And every boat that goes by (and there are many of them) rocks our boat. One huge container ship blasted his horn a number of times right next to us. Hopefully this will calm down by bed time. 

We have not been impressed with the Savannah River either. Not nearly what I expected. So tomorrow we're heading back off shore to Jekyll Island, I think.  It looks like the wind will be turning south after that so maybe the ICW will be back in our plans sooner than we thought.