Slade Creek

Well each day must sound the same to everybody, “we got up early, motored and or sailed to our next destination”.  But this is what we do every day to continue south. Anyways, we did the same today!!!! We had another canal to go into (Alligator-Pungo river canal) as you can see it is wider and mostly deeper than the last one we were in. We were loosely travelling with 7-8 other boats, which all left the same anchorage as us this morning. A boat that arrived late yesterday afternoon was a small catamaran from Quebec, there were three men doing a delivery to Florida, they were also with us. It was funny to hear some of the communications of certain boats trying to get a hold of others, only half of the sentence being transmitted etc, sort of reminded us of talking to F18’s on the radio :) With us all travelling en mass it sort of feels like a bit of an interstate as most people leave about the same time and often travel to the same anchorages. One of the boats had an engine that kept overheating and as this is a very isolated area it is not a spot that you want a problem. Anyways one of the boats was able to get a message to a towing service that was going to go help him in. I presume this canal water level had been lower in the past as there is a lot of old tree trunks in the water as you see by this picture. Again the trees and vegetation are different from a few days ago as shown by this picture. We are in a nicely isolated and quiet anchorage (one other boat) for the night, on to Oriental tomorrow.