Fort Frederico to Blackbeard's Creek

We took the dinghy ashore at Fort Frederico and looked at the old Spanish bastion, and the foundations of the ruins of Gen Oglethorpe's town.

We exited the north end of the Frederico River into the Mackay River and North into Buttermilk Sound.  Allen was learning to read the water pretty well as we transitted the Little Mud River at low tide, and learning the charts and the ICW as we went up to Blackbeard's Island.

Blackbeard's Island is a National Wildlife Refuge that I explored a little last week.  We went up into an anchorage that I had liked the week before, well up the creek.  I didn't want to anchor where I had before, in the opening, due to a swell running in that area, and anticipated 30 knot winds that evening.

We anchored in the creek, which was only about 100 feet wide, and settled in for the evening.  We launched the dinghy, and Allen explored up to the nearby fisherman's dock on the north creek.  He said the place was loaded with deer tracks, but it didn't appear any people had walked there in awhile.