Kilkenny Marina - at a dock, bouncy night at Crescent River anchorage

 

The place used to be a plantation - lots of live oaks around

We had some type of wind front come through last night around 11:00 pm with high winds producing wave action in the anchorage. The bow was surging up and down about a foot and with us in the bow bunk, it was disturbing for a while. Eventually, the front passed through and a steady wind of 20 kts continued. The anchor held fine through all of this, no problems there - but with our experience in Caesars Creek, we were both looking at the GPS every once in a while to be sure we were dragging. Neither one of us got a good night’s sleep. 

As I said, the docks are very basic, note the tie offs

In the morning, we wound up right where we started out relative to the anchor, it had not moved an inch. However, the wind and waves were still howling when I took Hoolie ashore in the morning. The anchor came up clean, no mud at all and we were off to Kilkenny. 

It’s two wraps followed by an overlap - it’s secure if done right

The marina here is basically a fishing camp. The docks are homemade and there are no store bought cleats, just a block of wood to wrap your lines around. It’s all very functional but not like marinas you may be used to elsewhere. I wouldn’t advise the use of the bathrooms or showers (fishing camp). For us, it’s a convenient store between Crescent River anchorage and Windmill Harbor Marina on Hilton Head Island. They even have WiFi which you’ll need since the phone signal (Verizon) is very poor. 

Another view of the beautiful live oaks - note the long horizontal limbs

We’re headed for Windmill Harbor in the morning so we’ll need an early start, around 7:00 am to get there before low tide on the entrance. I think that we’ll turn in early tonight to make up for a restless last night.