Tuesday, Jacksonville Fl to St Mary’s GA
March 31st, 2009 john
Day: 164 Miles: 40 Total Miles: 1681
Guess what? We made it out of FL. This is a landmark moment.
To get to the town of St. Mary’s, you need to depart the ICW and go up the St Mary’s River several miles. You wind your way up the marshes and see the town way before you get there. There is one and only one marina, “Langs”, with a dock master who is the “man”. He is an older Arcadian gentleman who lived his life on the river. The town is small but very historic with several bed and breakfasts and restaurants for the visitors.
The next morning at the dock in front of us was the trawler “Footloose” with a looper couple on board. We really enjoyed meeting Jim and Sandy and sharing experiences with them. They had completed their loop in Ft Lauderdale and were now going to Chesapeake Bay for the summer.
Barbara and I enjoyed breakfast the next day with Jim and Sandy and then returned to the boat for an afternoon of rain, rain, rain.
Three other trawlers pulled into St. Mary’s and we all decided to ride out the weather for one more day. We put on our rain gear and all went to dinner at Lang’s Seafood Restaurant, (yes the same Lang’s as in Lang’s Marina.) Great food, all you can eat fried shrimp.
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