A Surprise From NOAA

SHIP'S LOG:

Surprise, surprise, it didn't rain today. It did everything else but no rain, at least as I write this. It was, however, misty drizzly, cloudy, co,d and generally awful, but no rain. I gather that this will change tomorrow and Thursday in a big way. Florida has been rather dry this winter and they really do need the rain. Lots of marsh fires and wildfires all over the place because of the lack of rain. So before the entire state burns down, they really should get some rain.

It can get just a bit boring on a boat when you are stuck in place. Reading is a way to pass the time but after awhile, your butt gets sore from just sitting. It seems as though coming up with the energy to do maintenance or some of the little projects that could use doing is hard to come by when the weather is crappy. It just seems to suck the life and enthusiasm right out of me.

I am about three days traveling out of Georgia. It will be more than three days as I have stops to make but in actual travel time, just three days, perhaps four. I started looking ahead to Georgia because I have to change my mindset again. Georgia is the state of tides, 7 feet on average, and is also the state that has done the least to keep the ICW passable. I made it down OK but there was a lot of very thin water in Georgia and a lot of very narrow channels in the ICW. And in Georgia I will begin to hit the dead-zones for cell coverage adn Internet access. Where there are big population centers, everything will be fine. Away from them though it will be no signal and no calls and no blogs. I am still unsure whether or not to go outside and give Georgia a pass altogether, but that call can wait til St. Mary and depends really on whatever NOAA has to say . . . . not that I trust them all that much