Brunswick Landing Marina to Crescent River, near Valona, GA (anchored)
June 25, 2025
The Little Mud River (aka Little Muddy Creek) is part of our route today. There’s not a lot of water there even on high tides and high tides today aren’t on our side.
We did some more boat math at breakfast this morning at a restaurant in Brunswick that suited us. Maggie Mae’s owner is proud to tell us her restaurant has been serving for 32 years..
Our decision about Lil’ Muddy Creek was made as we were in St. Simon Sound – we would avoid it by heading out into the ocean and coming in Doboy Sound, which is north of the creek.
One difference between the ocean and the ICW is that there aren’t waves on most of the ICW. The waves weren’t bad today, though.
A similarity is we need to be aware of depths and shoaling. We have to use marked passages to get in and out of inlets.
The passage into Doboy is pretty well marked; north of the market below, the water is so shallow that there are breakers.
We passed Sapelo Island on which one of the last Gullah community lives.
We stayed in the Crescent River anchorage almost exactly 3 years ago on our way north to the Chesapeake.
As with our last time here, there’s a lot of natural entertainment. It’s fairly wide open, so sunsets are gorgeous.
My favorite part is the huge pods of dolphins that just seem to be everywhere. They would swim around Lailia and we could hear them after it got dark.
We just sat in the cockpit and enjoyed the breeze and the show.
The ICW is used to transport barges. We watched this one navigate past us through the Creighton Narrows.
Tomorrow we plan to do a shorter hop to an anchorage just before Hell Gate. We’ll spend the night so we can get through that passage on a good tide in the morning. From there, we’re planning to head towards Thunderbolt, GA.
- Happy Boataversary, part 3 (going east to the Bahamas 2022)
- Happy Boataversary, Lailia (part 2, going south-2022)
- Happy Boataversary, Lailia – part 1, 2019 through 2021)
- …and a Jump
- A Hop and a Skip
Life on Lailia 
Hello Chris,
I am still really enjoying your travelogues!
Last week I was in Hawaii with our band [playing at Pearl Harbor. We did a couple of “boat things.” ONe day we took a catamaran ride off the beach in Waikiki. The dolphins were playing around the boat. I thought about you and all your wildlife sightings.
I am sorry to send an. email instead of posting in the blog. I did fine with wordpress blogs until a friend took a trip and started his blog. Somehow in trying to access his blog, I did something to my wordpress. Now it won’t let me comment on anyone’s blog without logging in .. and I don’t even remember how to do that.
Have a great vacation! Rebecca
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