{"id":3469,"date":"2014-10-06T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:32:38","slug":"cape-fear-to-st-marys-ga-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Cape Fear to St Mary’s GA, day two"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s\u00a0Monday\u00a0morning and we are about 80 miles from the entrance to the St Mary’s River in GA.\u00a0 We are powering along on seas so calm you’d think that we were in LI Sound on a windless August afternoon.\u00a0 \u00a0At our current speed, we should arrive in the mouth of the river around\u00a010pm\u00a0tonight to begin our run up the river and the town of St Mary’s.<\/p>\n

Our plan is to head up and drop the anchor and spend the day in the river prior to heading over to have Pandora hauled in a nearby yard.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we saw a few dolphins but none stayed near\u00a0 the boat long enough to get pictures.\u00a0 However, this morning, we were treated to a visit that lasted nearly a half hour during which several dolphins swam in front of our bow for quite a while.\u00a0 At the peak, we had a dozen jockeying for position in front of us , darting in all directions and sometimes jumping clear of the water.<\/p>\n

The water here is so clear that we could see their every movement as they darted around our bow.\u00a0 I was able to get some terrific videos of their antics and will put an edited version on YouTube when I get home.\u00a0 What a treat.<\/p>\n

Speaking of treats, last night I cooked half of the tuna we caught yesterday.\u00a0 I have to say that you haven’t tasted tuna unless you’ve had it cooked within an hour or so of being caught.\u00a0 The flesh was a deep red and was nearly as firm as a good filet minion but when you take a bite, it melts in your mouth.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 They say that everything tastes better aboard so Imagine the best tuna ever, on a boat.\u00a0 Ambrosia.<\/p>\n

I saut\u00e9ed a mess of onion, set that aside and then seared the tuna only enough to cook it about \u00bc through and get it warm in the center.\u00a0 Then, I set that aside and reduced some teriyaki sauce that I had in the pantry as a glaze.\u00a0 \u00a0Jim and I had our fill, along with a nice salad.\u00a0 I will spare you a photo of the dish as my son Rob is so sick of “photos of friend’s meals on FaceBook” that he only looks at it once a week.\u00a0 Now that I have him looking at my blog, sometimes at least, I don’t want to do anything that will drive him away.<\/p>\n

“Rob, it was great but you’ll just have to imagine what it looked like”.\u00a0 Yum\u2026<\/p>\n

As is so often the case when I am making an offshore run, we were visited by a little bird for a while yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 He\/she landed in the cockpit and flitted (I guess that’s an apt description of what he did) from place to place aboard, including a brief visit down below.\u00a0 Fearing that he’d poop everywhere, which he sort of did, I scooped him up gently in my hand and put him back out in the cockpit, where he stayed for a while before heading who knows where.<\/p>\n

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\nAt one point he landed on Jim’s leg and looked around.\u00a0 Interestingly, it seems that every bird that lands aboard is of the same species.\u00a0 Last spring we had a visitor overnight that expired and had to be given a burial at sea.\u00a0 \u00a0Fortunately, yesterday’s visitor left prior to meeting an untimely end, if he did.\u00a0 I hope that he made it “home” wherever that is.<\/p>\n

Well, Pandora’s engine continues to drone along as it has now for over 24 hours as there isn’t any wind at all.\u00a0 Did I say that the water is very calm?\u00a0 \u00a0Thought so.<\/p>\n

Today’s sunrise was a spectacular show on the glass calm ocean.<\/p>\n

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\nWe decided to fish again.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope that we catch another tuna but hopefully, nothing too big.\u00a0 Small or large, they bleed a LOT and a small bleeder is certainly better than a BIG BLEEDER.\u00a0 Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s\u00a0Monday\u00a0morning and we are about 80 miles from the entrance to the St Mary’s River in GA.\u00a0 We are powering along on seas so calm you’d think that we were in LI Sound on a windless August afternoon.\u00a0 \u00a0At our current speed, we should arrive in the mouth of the river around\u00a010pm\u00a0tonight to begin our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}