Georgia

Georgia has a 10 ft tide range!
So it behooves the cruising boater to plan accordingly.  And our timing has been good.  We left JAX at 10:30 am, which was just before high tide.  That allowed us to breath easy over the shallow spots for the next several miles.  The Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway, ICW, is plagued by stretches that continually get silted in.  What is supposed to be 10-12 foot depths ( Mean Low Water on the charts) quickly becomes 5 ft or less. Which can be a real problem for a boat that draws 4 ft and you happen to wander out of the deepest part of the channel (which you can't see on the surface!). That is where using the tides comes to the rescue. We were able to travel with 3-8 ft of tide under us all thru Georgia.  By starting 3 hours on a rising tide, we would finish 3 hours after high tide, but still with plenty of cushion under us. Here is a picture of one nice anchorage we stayed at:

Same anchorage, but at low tide:

Temps have been down to 60 over night and up to 68 daytime.  A little windy, but mostly sunny, so overall quite pleasant.  We turn on the heat first thing in the AM to take the chill off.  But when sun comes up, we are fine and start opening windows.  Best thing about this time of year is - NO BUGS!

This is our 6th time through this stretch and the least amount of little critters we have ever experienced.  An earlier trip on Snow Bird will always be remembered for the never ending hoard of  biting green headed flies.

 We had a clear view of the Supermoon on Mar 20, marking the first day of spring:
 

But, it didn't hold a candle to the standard old sunset we were presented with most every day: