Southport NC, May 7-9

Our friends and Harbor Host (Robert & Kay Creech) home located right on the bay.
The movie "Safe Haven" was filmed next door and in the bay.

Robert and Kay Creech. They actually did the loop in 2008/2009 in their boat and
traveled with our boat and the previous owners.

My favorite curb side pickup.

Fried oysters and corn and oyster Rockefeller, Southern style, covered in collard greens and pimento cheese.
All for me, the captain. 

Another great restaurant with great fish tacos! First Mates favorite!

Seafood right off the boat.

BEAUTIFUL HOUSES IN SOUTH PORT NC

With the Full Moon the tide is extra high, even the street in front of our dock flooded.

We stayed at a restaurants free dock for two days. Being the restaurant was closed for COVID they decided to remodel.
Sometimes we could step right from the dock to the deck and other times we had to climb 5 steps.
I unloaded and loaded the  bikes at high tide.

When we pulled into the dock there was the channel marker #5 with a 20 ft pole was under the restaurants deck.
The owners called the coast guard and they came and cut the post up in sections before  the tide rose again. 

Georgetown, Wacca Wache, Myrtle Beach SC

Georgetown was a great town! Look at the date it was established.

Maggie Jo in Georgetown

Alligator was laying on the bank by the bakery.

Indigo Bakery had some yummy treats. 
Indigo was the #1 traded item out of Georgetown before rice trading grew. 

We headed up to Wacca Wache Marina.  Harbor hosts Tom & Brenda LaHey greeted us
with goodies and tickets for Brook Green Gardens.  We went to this National Historic Landmark
we were amazed with the gardens, American Sculpture and zoo.  We even got to go to Walmart thanks to
them letting us use their car to get around.

The flowers were in bloom .

Look at these colors!

This was several lily pads in one garden.

A sample of the sculpture that was on display.  

Here is our harbor hosts- Tom & Brenda LaHey.

Travel north of Waca Waache thru the Cypress Trees.

Maybe a Osprey Nest, on our way to Osprey Marina for fuel.

Two Jelly fish- washed up on the beach.  Myrtle Beach was beautiful.  

This was on the end of our dock
 It says No alcohol allowed beyond this point - So Start Chugging

Savannah, Beaufort, Charleston

SAVANNAH GA

Marina in Savannah GA 8 foot tide. 

Barnacles on the dock posts. Sometimes underwater and sometimes not. 

Oldest baptist church in Savannah.  Beautiful churches, houses
and streets.  People were practicing social distancing. We don't mind that things
are closed we can get around without fighting crowds and we still see a lot . 

BEAUFORT SC

We had a mooring ball at Downtown Marina for two days.  This
town is beautiful!! We went by the historic houses where they
filmed The Big Chill.  We biked around and appreciated the flowers and the potted plants.
Maggie Jo out on a mooring ball.

So did we mention that our bikes fold up and we can dinghy them
in if we are anchored or on a mooring ball?  Yes that is our bikes in those black bags.
  It makes for a packed ride.  

We rode our bikes out to a National Veterans Cemetery. It is always
so humbling to be on this hallowed ground.  

B & B SEAFOOD

Captain Tom was very happy to stop by a seafood shop and buy shrimp
right off the boat.  B & B Seafood said they could hardly keep up
with the demand since restaurants are closed. 

Anchorages are sometimes so perfect you have to pinch yourselves to remind us that
we are in the picture.  This was Church's Creek and we were there on a Sunday!

CHARLESTON SC

We cannot get enough pictures of these trees. Majestic and beautiful.

Cemetery in the French Quarters, we were struck the beauty.

We found a Lutheran Church ! No services ,does it count if we walked by on a Sunday.

Once again you cannot get enough at looking at these
big and beautiful houses.  

We found a restaurant to carry out our food and then Joe
found us chairs in front of a closed hotel to eat.  Nothing like having a
picnic in downtown Charleston.

Street view in Charleston. Makes us miss Pella, Iowa  with our cobblestone streets.

Florida to Georgia

Leaving from Ortega Landing in Jacksonville, Florida and our friends old and new.
Left early as the bridge was closed after 8:00 am.

Here we are in Fernandina, Florida at the oldest bar in Florida.  It started
as a shoe store and when the sailors did not buy shoes they changed to
a bar and guess what ?  Apparently men in those days preferred beer to shoes.

My (Tom's) hobby after the trip.
Decoupage maps unto oyster shells.

We social distanced dock tails with this group. Always great to hear
their stories and experiences. We left Fernandina and on the way to
Jekyll Island. We entered Georgia!!

We passed Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.
Didn't see any subs. This is the structure they pull into after a cruise to degauss the ship.
(demagnetize) 

Jekyll Island is a beautiful place.  We rode our bikes nearly around the whole
thing.  The bike path led us to the Millionaire row where wealthy folks had built these
huge mansions. 

When we got back from our bike ride we found our burgee had
blown off and a nice boater found it and placed it under a bleach
jug so we would find it.  Tom repaired the torn piece and cleaned it up!

This is a huge car hauling cargo ship that rolled over near the inlet of an ocean inlet.
It was miss loaded when it came out of Brunswick.

Catching up with Sea Lord - Joe and Robyn.  We first met
them in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.  Georgia's beautiful marsh lands
on the right.

We set an anchor alarm at night and if the boat tracks out of the circle an alarm sounds and
we know we have a problem  (we we set it correctly). 
Here in Cresent River we had a 6ft tide so current changes direction twice during the night.
That's why our track made a circle.

Tom's early coffee time! He caught this picture and I am grateful that
he lets me sleep and see the pictures later.  I think this one will
will be hanging on a wall someday.

This is how you fill your bike tires on a boat (scuba tank).
I am so glad that we bought these bikes.  We tease each other that we should have
leather jackets with Maggie Jo lettered on the back.  We have been able to see so much more. 

Jacksonville

For sheltering in place we are not suffering too bad, this is our marina.
Maggie Jo is in the background in the center of the photo. The
pool is still open but we are not using it.
They even have free laundry which Angie loves.

Maggie Jo at rest, she fits right in. Our friends Sea C Rider
are across from us just a few slips down.  And friends from Sturgeon
Bay, Wisconsin are one dock down from us. This gives us some
safe social distancing opportunities.

Something new to us. The first time I ever saw Spanish Moss
 I thought they should clean it off the trees.
Now I can appreciate it.

It even grows on overhead lines.

Social distance dinghy ride.
Dinghy's from Cedar Falls, IA, Tennessee, and New York.

Angie living the dream.

I "pimped" the dinghy after getting a new outboard.
Added a fire extinguisher and a stainless steel outboard lock.
PS - It still goes about 24 mph solo.

When we bought our boat we named her MAGGIE JO
 after our mothers, Margaret Lyng and Josephine Rusert.

In a coincident, when we open MAGGIE JO's stern door
 most on the letters get covered, so then it spells "MA".

When your spending extra time at a marina without running around the area much it's boat task list time. Changed engine oil, bought more oil from CAT for another change before we get back to the Great Lakes, fixed a deck faucet fresh water leak, updated software for the chart plotters, updated chart plotter maps, updated IPad maps, cleaned bikes, polished some the the  boat, changed zinc anodes under the boat (a diver was near by, so I let him do it, too lazy to drag out my gear in low visibility water), changed or cleaned the eleven engine zinc anodes, dinghy mods.,  and re-routed holding tank vent (fun). Maybe it's time to do some fishing, as in a week or so we will be out of  Florida and into Georgia or I will have to buy another license.