You don't have to look very hard to find wrecks on the river. Here's the hulk of a once very nicely restored Chris Craft that disappeared from the marina a couple of months ago. Apparently, it didn't survive a trip over the dam.
A houseboat went missing in Augusta about the same time, but this one isn't it. This vessel looks like it has been in the water a much longer time.
And here's the old steel tugboat Tomochichi, abandoned at Augusta in the 60s, raised and restored in the 70s and abandoned again in a sinking condition sometime after that. She's been yard art at a river home a little north of Port Wentworth, GA, long enough to grow through-hull trees.
The Georgia Power nuclear plant near Waynesboro is adding two new reactor units.
Ms. Bettencourt's 3-cylinder Kubota engine, upon which we heated rolls to go with our dinner the first night out. (If you wrap rolls tightly in foil, they will heat to butter melting temperature in a hour or so of running time and they won't taste like diesel fuel).
A memorable sunset in the anchorage at Little Hell Landing.
Piling wing dams. High water levels made many of these structures, built in the 1930s to help scour river channels, into dangerous submerged obstacles.
A double row of pilings extends underwater from these end posts to the nearby riverbank.
Either a darned big dragonfly or a shrink-wrapped helicopter.
Ocean vessel Arthur Maersk brings containers to the Port of Savannah, assisted by two Moran tugs:
Ms. Bettencourt, hanging with the big yachts at Thunderbolt Marine.
"You again!" the dockmaster said when we arrived the next afternoon at the marina in Beaufort, SC.
"Every time you show up here it rains!"
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The boat's back at her dock on the River behind our house now. Planning has begun for the next cruise, probably southward from Savannah in the fall.
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