Lighthouse at St. Simon's Inlet
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“Reflection” left the dock before 7 a.m. and within 2 miles we had crossed the border into Georgia and then headed out the St. Mary’s River Inlet. The wind was out of the southeast and we were headed into an incoming tide, so George pumped up the engines as we headed out, but when Pat started getting splashed by spray up on the fly-bridge, he decided to back off a little. As we eventually made our turn north we were taking the waves on our stern quarter, making for more motion than we would prefer, but at least the trip to St. Simon’s Inlet was only 22 miles away. Conditions improved as we headed in past Jekyll Island and up the Brunswick River. George planned to fill up with fuel at Ocean Petroleum in Brunswick, as they had very good fuel prices, but unfortunately we had to wait at idle in the river for almost an hour while two other vessels before us filled up. We finally got in and made our purchase of almost 200 gallons, and then headed a little further up the river to Brunswick Landing Marina. The dockmistress and her agile female assistant got us tied up quickly around 1:30 p.m. Pat then cleaned the inside of the boat while George sprayed off the salt from our ocean trip on the outside, and then he caught a cab to go to the grocery store, while Pat did another load of wash. Our friends, George and Linda Telschow are coming aboard tomorrow, and we wanted everything to be in place for their arrival. With all our tasks completed, we walked across one of the town plazas to a lovely restaurant, “The 4th of May”, for a dinner of local southern dishes. We retired early, as we have a big travel day tomorrow!
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