{"id":982,"date":"2015-11-12T23:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/?p=982"},"modified":"2015-11-15T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:31:28","slug":"moon-river-wider-than-a-mile-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/2015\/11\/moon-river-wider-than-a-mile-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon River&#8230;wider than a mile&#8230;NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12\/11\/15 Breakfast Creek, Georgia ICW<br \/>\nPosition 31 56.195N, 80 40.673W<br \/>\nPosted by Bill<\/p>\n<p>We left Beaufort\/Port Royal at 6:35 and made it through the first set of Georgia shoal areas with no issue&#8230;thank goodness!  Here is what we saw along the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise on the Beaufort River:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv38%3A34%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D58g767e50hidg%2F77e70c6g3%2F6eic4gdgg362ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSome pelicans hanging out on a river buoy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv38%3A9%3B%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D%3C5%3C9%3C%3B4%3B033cg%2F768e0d57g%2F4h9h57%3Ce%3B978ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA shrimping boat heading out for a day&#8217;s work:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv3%3C%3A94%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D%3A5eh%3Ah390%3B57d%2F7f7h0%3B69g%2F4735%3B6%3B6784hot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe Harbor Town light house at Hilton Head&#8230;I just can&#8217;t take enough pictures of this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv36474%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D6d6f649c02956%2F72df0c%3C6d%2Fi6i2dfe%3B95%3Bhot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSome cool boats like this one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv36288%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D69f573360f98e%2F79hh0%3Aed%3C%2Fi8%3Cd3ci43795ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRescue squad at Dufauski Island.  They were all over this tug boat trying to get someone off of the boat.  I hope it ended up well:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv37%3A6%3B%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3Dehh89efh0%3Ahce%2F76%3Bc0%3Bh7%3C%2F4d63ig943c64ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nClose to the end of the day we passed Moon River, the inspiration for the song made famous in 1961 in the movie, Breakfast At Tiffany&#8217;s.  I remember the Andy Williams version that my Mom had the album for&#8230;pretty much dates my ass.  Part of the lyrics are &#8220;wider than a mile&#8221;, but it isn&#8217;t.  It might be a half mile at most, but more like a quarter mile.  Replace <em>that<\/em> for the last sentence in the lyrics&#8230;it&#8217;s a hoot.  Here is what it looks like:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv3%3B243%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D9872%3Af6e08%3Ch8%2F7eh80%3A336%2F4fd96%3A%3A9g2%3A8ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a LOOOONGGGGG day.  We got the anchor down in one of our favorite anchorages in Georgia, Breakfast Creek:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv3%3B387%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D783h3%3Afg08dfh%2F76d%3A0cg2%3B%2Fdege3%3B34646cot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe are here with one other boat and it is as peaceful as it gets!  This is what I love about cruising. We watched the sun set and schools of dolphins feeding in the anchorage.   Cocktails of course!  <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we are going to try to make the other 2 major shoal areas of Georgia in 1 day.  Wish us luck!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/11\/15 Breakfast Creek, Georgia ICW Position 31 56.195N, 80 40.673W Posted by Bill We left Beaufort\/Port Royal at 6:35 and made it through the first set of Georgia shoal areas with no issue&#8230;thank goodness! Here is what we saw along the way&#8230; Sunrise on the Beaufort River: Some pelicans hanging out on a river buoy: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icw-intracoastal-waterway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ILlB-fQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}