Jekyll Island

Leaving Fernandina

 

We leave at 8:00 AM for the relatively short trip to Jekyll Island Marina. It is quite windy out of the northeast and have lots of waves on sections with long fetches in that direction. We take the alternate route on St. Andrews Sound that I “discovered” 4 years ago which avoids the ICW route that takes you out on the ocean which can get very rough in northeast winds.

We plan to stay at Jekyll for a couple days because the weather forecast is not looking to good. Even though we made reservations a couple days ago we are not put on the face dock which is makes it easy dealing with the current here. We first fuel up and pump out on the gas dock on the north end of the long face dock. We are assigned slips behind the face dock which are perpendicular to the current which can make coming and going rather difficult if you are not doing so at slack tide. We get into our slips with a lot of help to prevent whacking the adjacent boats that the current wants to drag us into. 

 

Jekyll Island Marina, backside of face dock

 We have dinner on the boat and go for a walk to get Frozen Yogurt at a self-serve place we had been to last Fall. The winds have strangely drop to almost nothing, which is not forecast.