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| Bucking the tide wrong direction most of day. 56 SM; 9 engine hours |
Released ourselves from the mooring ball at 0730 with ebbing tide. Motored over to fuel dock and quickly filled up the fresh water tank and dumped trash. Back underway, we bid so long to St. Augustine.
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| Sunrise departure from the mooring field |
Rode the tide out to the inlet, Atlantic not too bad this morning, but Serenity is not a blue water boat, we steered to port and begin our trip north on the AICW. This area of northern Florida and Georgia has significant tides. Approaching full moon in a few days high tide will rise five feet . Center of waterway critical as both left and right very shallow with mud flats rising out of the water at low tide. Pretty quiet on the waterway today.
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| AICW |
Not a lot of traffic until reaching the St Johns river
(River Facts) where major naval installations are located, USMC prepositioned sea lift at Blount Island
(BIC) and commercial container shipping greeted us. Massive tugs, tows and large barges all around. Navigation tricky with many security zones patrolled by USCG and Homeland security boats.
We have exited our AICW journey to explore the St Johns river, which flows south to north and offers 150 miles of navigable water into Florida interior.
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| Impressive bridge over St Johns river, Jacksonville |
Serenity and crew secured at 1630 at the free dock.
metropolitan-park-marina Floating docks next to the
Gator Bowl stadium.
(map). Great park, where we walked before sunset. Intend to get underway early tomorrow and begin the southward journey up the St Johns river. Tidal currents very significant here so have to account in departure planning. Also, cold front approaching with winds and thunderstorms so weather may impact departure.
1460.4 Hobbs; 2314 SM elapsed
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