Tuesday 3/25 – Thursday 3/ 27
As we continue our southbound exploration of the St. Johns River, we decide to take a side-trip into Murphy Creek (Mile 83), a beautiful narrow winding waterway where we discover many turtles and a few alligators along it's banks. After spending the night anchored at a wide spot along the creek, we make way for Silver Glen Springs on the west shoreline of Lake George. Although the water is rather skinny , Royce, standing on the bow, directs me to the entry. Once inside the creek, we approach the spring and have a confrontation with terra firma. We manage to break free and decide this is not an appropriate place to spend the night, so we head out to Lake George, but as we power up, we notice a bad vibration. We do manage slowly to make it to Zinder Point at the southern end of Lake George and anchor up Hitchen Creek (Mile 116). Assuming that we need to resolve our problem, we contact looper friends, Bill & Jill who make arrangements to leave Puffin with friends in Astor (Mile 120), only a few miles south of our location and offer us a ride to Sanford aboard their boat Transition. We meet up with them at the marina in Astor. As we leave the marina to tie up to their friend's dock, we are delighted that the vibration quits and realize that Puffin must have fouled her prop with sea grass.( Better to be lucky than good.) So with the problem resolved, we follow Transition to Sanford where Puffin and crew happily make fast to the docks at the Sanford Municipal Marina (Mile 163). Bill & Jill have dinner & drinks aboard Puffin and celebrate our good fortune.

Murphy Creek

St John Shoreland Scenes

Hitchen Creek Sunset

Hitchen Creek

Following Transition

On Our Way To Sanford