I'm not sure why we are in such a hurry!
We high-tailed it up the I.C.W. to St. Augustine, (Florida), where we jumped outside and sailed to Beaufort, South Carolina. The wind speed and direction was perfect for the 130-mile trip and we had a great sail. Thankfully we left when we did as there is some nasty weather coming our way in the next few days. Believe it or not there was a little a method in our madness.
On the way down last fall we missed Beaufort so we were happy to be able to stop here this time around. This is a town that is very pretty and rich in history and we thoroughly enjoyed walking around and checking out all the sights.
Our plan is set in Jello so don't be surprised if it changes, but from here we hope to travel a bit further north....probably Georgetown, South Carolina...... where we will put Blue Blazes on a truck and have her transported back to Midland, Ontario... her home port. We are feeling that since we have already travelled the I.C.W., and don't really care if we do it again, we might as well take advantage of the time we have and spend the summer cruising our beautiful and familiar North Channel, and Georgian Bay.
Tomorrow (or maybe the day after) we plan to visit Charleston, South Carolina...another city we missed on the way down. We've heard lots of great things about Charleston so we are really looking forward to that. In the meantime we are still trying to get our heads around the fact that we will soon be back to our old life.
We're on the home stretch now.
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One of the beautiful homes in Beaufort.
We are still in Gorgetown at Belle Isle marina then next week move to hazard marine right in G-town to have some work done, Would love to connect and hear about your travels.
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Will you live on your boat here until your house is empty? when is that? Looking forward to seeing you. Pat N.
ReplyDeleteHi Jenn, We just arrived in Georgetown. I hope we meet up while we are here.
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We are anchored in the harbour at the moment. Will be chatting with the trucking company on Monday again to see when they will be arriving. Until then we will hang out here and start preparing the boat for the big road trip.
ReplyDeletethere is a great italian restaurant on the water side Portofinos. If yu go for lunch its less expensive and you'll bring home supper too. Hopefully we'll get to find you before yu leave. We'd love to hear more stories.
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