After leaving Savannah on Monday morning, we headed towards Blackbeard Island, just North of Sapelo Island. We sailed into Blackbeard Creek just before the beautiful sunset and anchored a couple of hundred feet East of Neslon's Bluff Dock. Mooring at the dock is not allowed, only putting people on and off your boat that want to visit the island!). We had a very calm overnight anchor (no anchor alarms on my GPS) and early in the morning we rowed our little dingy towards the dock for a hike along the South end of the island. The weather was still good although we could see clouds coming in as the forecasted. Our hike was great. We saw lots of birds, a wild mother hog with three little piglets, a couple of deer and grandpa alligator, a real big old grumpy looking one! In the afternoon we decided to sail a couple of ours up the Sapelo River to find a spot to get some diesel fuel for our boat. We had to deal with 30 knots winds and a choppy sea but Leslie as doing great. No seasickness at all. We moored for the night at a very funky old almost ruined dock at Pelican Point. Too bad the restaurant was closed but in the morning we got our fuel by a commercial hose that weight possibly equil our boat haha. From there on we moved on further South were we sailed into Hampton River that devides Little St Simons Island from St Simons Island. Hampton River Marina is a nice and small marina with all necessities available. We hope to move on further South towards Jekkyl Island tomorrow. We try to keep you posted.
Leslie & Frans
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