Day Seven-Savannah, GA to Beaufort, SC

Friday April 4, 2025

Today was a longer day but the weather cooperated. We took off from Isle of Hope Marina, which is on the Intracoastal just east of downtown Savannah. We had the use of a courtesy car to get a few more provisions and extra wiring for the fridge. I’m happy to say, the fridge is still working great. Another day and we will know for sure! Fingers crossed!

As we left Savannah, there were so many beautiful homes. We passed a cruise ship that I’ll have to look up and see where they go. that looked fun!

We then had to go through a bridge that was being worked on. The area to go through was pretty narrow (on the right as you look at the picture), but Captain Jeff made it just fine.

More beautiful homes on the water as we get closer to Hilton Head Island.

As we left Hilton Head, we crossed the Broad River (which is pretty broad). I was driving at this point and it got a little rolling. Not scary, just interesting. It was about 4 miles across at the oceans entrance.

We arrived in Beaufort, home of Parris Island- known for Marine Corp training. There is also a US Naval Hospital close by. They have antebellum architecture, which is very well preserved. Huge mansions!

Our next adventure was to grab a mooring ball and tie up for the night. Sounds easy, right? Well, it could have been if we didn’t have to fight a very strong 25 mph wind. Ha! Jeff couldn’t figure out why I was having a hard time grabbing that loop on the ball to get my rope through. I finally got it but then could not hang on to the boat hook any longer. Down it went! We went back around, grabbed our boat hook and continued to try. Finally Jeff took on that task and I maneuvered the boat. Easy? NOPE! He bent the boat hook! We did finally get it and tied up just fine after about 40 minutes of trying. WOW! What an experience. Next time should be way easier!

We then took our dinghy to the dock and had a walk around Beaufort. What a cute town. Most of the scenes from Forest Gump were filmed in Beaufort. We shared a peach ice cream cone and enjoyed all the scenery before coming back to our boat that was so wonderfully attached to that damn mooring ball!