{"id":6072,"date":"2017-07-04T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:54:37","slug":"thunderbolt-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"July 4 – Day 4 – Thunderbolt Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are now docked at a marina in Thunderbolt Georgia which is about 20 minutes from Savanna (by car).<\/p>\n

We will stay here tonight, go sightseeing in Savanna tomorrow & the continue our journey north the next day.
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The marina here only has a few slips for transient boaters. It’s primary business is looking after the maintenance needs of all sizes of boats – including the huge one on the other side of the docks from where we are tied up. Talk about feeling inadequate in the shadow of this behemoth. But I love our little boat & am very grateful to have it.<\/p>\n

Our trip today took us almost 12 hours. We left the dock at Two Way Fish Camp at 7:00am & tied up in Thunderbolt at about 6:30 pm. Our journey is certainly not physically demanding but the heat & humidity sure tires you out. I have been drinking 2-3 liters of water each day while underway & am still thirsty after we tie up on the dock. G&Ts sure hit the spot after the engine is shut down & the lines are secure.<\/p>\n

Lots of interesting sights along the way. We saw a many black & grey dolphins\/porpoises today. Not exactly sure what type they are but they are beautiful to watch. They are almost always in groups of 2 or 3. I keep trying to get a photo of them surfacing for a gulp of air but can never seem to time the camera shot right.
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\nThis part of the ICW has lots of grassy marshlands & boat speeds are restricted to protect the manatee that live in these waters (photo above).<\/p>\n

Fortunately for us the speed restrictions do not hinder our progress as our “top” speed is below what is required.<\/p>\n

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We noticed that the traffic on the ICW increased as we got closer to Thunderbolt & Savanna. The properties along the rivers also got much closer together (& bigger – wow!).<\/p>\n

TouringSavanna tomorrow. Should be fun. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

32\u00b01\u203230\u2033 N 81\u00b02\u203249\u2033 W We are now docked at a marina in Thunderbolt Georgia which is about 20 minutes from Savanna (by car). We will stay here tonight, go sightseeing in Savanna tomorrow & the continue our journey north the next day. The marina here only has a few slips for transient boaters. It’s primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1zW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}