Fort Frederica

We leave early around 7:00 AM ahead of Blue Breeze. We are heading to Fort Frederica on St. Simonds Island off the ICW and is going to anchor next to the ICW. The following night we will be at the same Marina at Jekyll Island. We start off with a nice sunrise and again have a heavy dew to wipe of the vinyl windows in our dodger. We enjoy our last two donuts from Thunderbolt Marina. 

Blue Breeze anchored in Kilkenny Creek in the morning

Cool, but sunny all day. Our problem shallow area for today is “Mud River”which we passed through just at low tide. Our lowest reading was 6.1 feet. A little later after “Mud River” we bump the bottom at a spot that supposedly has 7 feet of depth at low tide, which was an hour ago. I wasn’t even watching the depth gauge, not expecting a problem. We were moving a cruising speed and with the momentum of the boat and flat bottom wing keel ,just slid up and over this “hump”. 

We get to Fort Frederica around 3:30 and I quickly anchor and get the dinghy down to head to the Park Service dock.

Manana

Fort Frederica National Monument is on the Frederica River which parallels the ICW . There was a British Fort and town there prior to the American Revolution, around 1740, an outpost, to prevent the Spanish in Florida from moving into Georgia which was a no-mans land between British South Carolina and Spanish Florida.  In 1763, France, Britain, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris at the end of the French and Indian War. Spain gave up Florida and Britain removed the troops stationed there and the town quickly died a few years later.

Remains of Fort Frederica

We get to the visitor center before closing and get to see a movie about Fort Frederica. Then after touring the grounds we head back to the boat for dinner.