The waters from St. Simon's Island north to St. Catherine's Sound and the docks at Sunbury Crab Restaurant & Marina were calm and flat yesterday. Dolphins body-surfed in our wake; beautiful, protected wetlands all around. Overtook a boat from Hampton, VA and noticed their bimini top was repaired with a blue tablecloth. Why?? Because they were in a tornado in Port Lucaya, Bahamas. It lifted their boat and set it back down into the water. Quite a ride for them!
Sunbury was a prominent harbor before the Revolutionary War but now is little more than a settlement of retired, mostly military families. We visited the site of an old cemetary and church.
We enjoyed a delicious shrimp dinner and the company of a salty shrimper and Vietnam vet named Capt. Dennis. He has shrimped all up and down the coast and caught the shrimp we enjoyed for dinner. He shared a wealth of knowledge about fishing and cruising these waters. We were considering going off shore today rather than up the ICW. 40 mile trip offshore; 80 mile trip on ICW. He said that if we did NOT go offshore that we were "REE-tards". Decision made.
Fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, steamed shrimp, shrimp gumbo, shrimp kabobs! Lt. Dan, Forest, is that you?
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