[Rhodes22-list] Day 5 the day we were pulled over by the Navy!

[Wally Buck]

Rob,

We never were able to get a decent photo of the baby dolphins. The mothers 
were very careful about keeping their distance. We DID have some pics of 
dolphins but somebody deleted a bunch of pics on the memory card accidently 
....

Wally

>From: "Rob Lowe" <rlowe at vt.edu>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Day 5 the day we were pulled over by the Navy!
>Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:27:11 -0400
>
>Wally,
>You don't happen to have any dolphin pictures, do you?
>
>
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>From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
>To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:28 AM
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Day 5 the day we were pulled over by the Navy!
>
>
> > Day 5 Tuesday
> >
> > A great night sleep but the morning forecast called for continued heavy 
>NE
> > winds out on the ocean. It looks like we were going to be on ICW for a
> > while. Not a problem I always wanted to see the area around Cumberland
> > Island. I cooked eggs and ham for breakfast; we refueled, got some
>supplies
> > and headed out around 10:30. We were moving slow and there seemed no 
>point
> > in rushing.
> >
> > We motored out of the marina back into ICW and headed north. We passed 
>the
> > Fernandina Beach harbor area of Amelia Island. There are many 
>contrasting
> > things to see on this part of the ICW. Look one way and see beautiful
> > marshes and beaches. Look the other way and see big industry at work.
> >
> > We reached the St. Mary's River and spotted a sub cruising into the 
>sound.
> > There was a beehive of activity providing support for the sub. The Air
>Force
> > had helicopters speeding all around and the Navy and Coast Guard had 
>large
> > zodiac style boats with hard cabin and fore and aft machine gun turrets.
>One
> > of these sped over and informed us we needed to get 1000 yards out of 
>the
> > channel and turn our bow away from the sub. We could enter channel once
>the
> > sub was 1000 yards past. We followed orders; left the channel, turned 
>away
> > and snapped some pics.
> >
> > After the sub passed we cruised passed Cumberland Island and headed up
> > Cumberland Sound and the Cumberland River. This part of the ICW is 
>Mother
> > Nature at her best. Undeveloped sand swept shorelines all around. The
> > currents and tides are quite strong and I was glad to have that big 
>diesel
> > driving us. We saw numerous dolphins including many mother dolphins with
> > baby dolphins. You could see little tiny dorsal fins zipping all around.
> > They were only a couple of feet long and they always kept their 
>distance.
> > Talk about cute! Every now and then they would jump in the air and try 
>to
>do
> > a flip. We would see dolphins everyday on this trip but the baby 
>dolphins
> > were really cool to see. Bird life was plentiful; Osprey, Brown 
>Pelicans,
> > Herons, Cranes, Egrets, and a variety of gulls were all around. Later 
>that
> > day we discovered that there are sub hangers on the west side of the 
>river
> > so now we knew the reason for the sub on the ICW. As we went by sub
>hangers
> > the red helo and zodiacs buzzed us again.
> >
> > Late in the day Brian discovered we had a water pump leaking so we 
>decided
> > to proceed to Jekyll Harbor Marina and purchase new pump. We crossed St.
> > Andrews Sound and enjoyed the view of Cumberland Lighthouse of our 
>stern.
> > Unfortunately we got to marina after 6 and could not look for part until
> > morning. We decided to try the restaurant and the seafood boil was quite
> > tasty. We spent the rest of the evening relaxing drinking cold beers
> > poolside and enjoying the hot tub. We only traveled about 36 miles due 
>to
> > late start and motor problems.
> >
> >
>
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