Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Lost Leaving the National Seashore behind we headed out across Cumberland Sound on our way south into Florida. Once across we stopped at a small town to make a phone call home. We were surprised to see that the town was St. Mary's Georgia as we had expected to cross the Georgia/Florida border in the middle of the sound. We were sure the number progression of the marker signs had been correct. We carried on after our call for another mile or so before we ran out of depth and had to turn around and retrace our steps back out to the sound. A second look at the markers revealed that the numbers were right but they didn't bear the small ICW yellow square or triangle. Barry quickly slipped below to hook our GPS up to the Fugawi software on our laptop to see just where we were. This enabled us to find our way to the correct ICW markers and across the Sound and into Florida. If we had to get lost we were glad it was at high tide. The 7 foot tides in the Cumberland Sound gave us more breathing room over the many shoals.

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