Jekyll Island Marina - at a dock

 

Cumberland Divides at low tide shows its teeth - a sand bar that extends beyond the reds. 
It’s at MM 703 and is famous for catching boats hugging the reds at low tide.

We had intended to anchor at Fernandina for the night, coming from the Sisters Creek free docks, but the weather forecast continued to warn of 15 to 20 kt winds out of the northeast on Friday afternoon. That makes for a difficult passage around the outside buoys at St Andrews Sound. Waves from the northeast will hit the boat broadside as the turn is made at the buoys. If the waves are big enough, it can be downright dangerous with the boat rocking violently from side to side. 

Jekyll Island Marina was full! However, they found a slip for us on the inside.

Around 10:30 am or so, we looked at the weather forecast again and decided to soldier on to Jekyll Island with the southern winds predicted - a lot different from northeast winds. The southern winds would be behind us almost the entire way. 

Don’t miss out on a dinner at Zachry’s!

We called ahead to Jekyll to see if they had room and with an affirmative answer, we made the decision to proceed. Unfortunately, the entire facedock was already occupied so we took an inside slip, the first time we went inside which is at right angles to the prevailing current. However, with two dockhands helping, we had no problems getting to our dock and tying up.

Jekyll Island is a great place to spend a few days. One of the attractions is a great restaurant right by the marina. It seems to always be full and even at 5:00 pm, we had to wait a few minutes for a table. There are longer waits later one. Ann had the fried oyster sandwich and I partook of the crab sandwich with an appetizer of Buffalo wings and a key lime pie slice for dessert. It was all very good and I would highly recommend it, Zachry’s River House. 

We will rest up Friday (having fun is so exhausting…) and tackle the laundry and ordering groceries on Saturday. Ann has an Easter Sunday dinner planned with ham and all the trimmings. On Monday we plan on moving on to the Crescent River anchorage, gradually working our way north.