June 10 Isle of Hope

June 10

Timing todays arrival at Isle at Hope for slack current meant leaving our anchorage at 10AM  for a 1PM arrival.   That meant we could sleep in a bit and after a couple days of fairly early starts we got to enjoy a nice leisurely breakfast of fresh blueberry pancakes.  Not a bad start after a good night at anchor. 

Scenery was split today.  We finished going around the back side of Ossabaw Island with its marshlands, then cut through Hell Gate and worked our way over behind Skidaway Island.   Hell Gate had a terrible reputation for extremely shallow water in a narrow cut. It required transit only during the upper halves of high tide. Not much of an issue right now as it got dredged last year and hasn’t shoaled back in yet. 

Mornings  start off sunny, hot and humid

Starting at Skidaway Island we began seeing more development with houses and docks along the waterfront.   Along with that extra civilization were a few more boats.  Mostly smaller center console fishing boats flying by us with a wave.  We got tied up easily on the outside dock at Isle of Hope and even had time to use their loaner bikes for a ride around the waterfront.  It’s a very cute area  with some older homes on a  bluff overlooking a  sharp bend in the river. We stopped at the entrance to Wormsloe Plantation  which is GA DNR historic site but simply didn’t have enough time or energy to bike the 3 miles in past the gate to the house.

Quite stop at Isle of Hope marina.  

Isle of Hope marina as viewed from the bluff

Entrance Road to Wormsloe Plantation

Our Looper buddies Russ and Jax on “InQuest” have been here for several days waiting for a couple of packages to catch up to them. Worked out good for us.  We always enjoy our time with them and they had scouted out a good restaurant with great Blackened  Grouper Tacos and Shrimp and Grits.   And of course,  we enjoyed a local craft beer with dinner.

Journey for June 10