Brunswick Landing Marina - Brunswick, GA March 9th and 10th

One of several attractive downtown parks, Brunswick, GA

This is our third day in Brunswick, a small city that sits just off the ICW to the west of Jekyll Island, Emerald Isle, and St. Simon's Island.  The marina we're at is right downtown, in the historic park of this town that was established in 1771 and Wayne and I, street people that we are, have hoofed it around to investigate many blocks of interesting old buildings and beautiful old oak trees.  Though the downtown area is somewhat depressed with many vacant buildings, we've had no trouble finding some excellent restaurants, a fish market for good shrimp, a farmers' market, a locally owned bookstore and a fine assortment of antique stores.  We've concluded that our (so far) favorite restaurant is Brunswick's Brewburgers.  They specialize in fourteen different and unique hamburgers and we hope to eventually eat our way through all of them.  Four down - ten to go!

We've met many nice boaters and townsfolk on this trip but we both feel that the folks in Brunswick sit at the top for Southern hospitality.  Everyone we've met - from the bank teller to the marina staff to the waitresses to the fish store clerk to the bookstore proprietors (and their resident dog) - has made us feel welcome to this city.  Between them all and the windy, stormy weather of the past few days, we suspect there is a conspiracy to glue us to the dock here indefinitely.  It just may succeed.

The wild hairstyle is thanks to a relentless wind.  Brewburgers is just across the street.

Newcastle St. in downtown Brunswick

Our friend, Roger, passed through today and went to lunch with us where we discussed his idea that we might leave the boat here for a month.  After weighing all the pros and cons of such a plan, we've decided to rent a car tomorrow and drive to Little River where our Taurus has been parked for the past four months.  We'll drive by the marina we had planned to dock at in Charleston and look it over thoroughly; then come back to Brunswick and head back to Charlotte from here, probably on Saturday.  We'll leave the boat here in Brunswick for at least a month, then move it or not, depending upon which marina we like better.  Charleston, of course, is closer to home but costs more for dockage and is much more exposed to bad weather than we are here.  Bad weather (high wind) is expected throughout tomorrow so we would be grounded here anyway for a while.  Both of us are in gettin' home mode.

Dark, threatening skies Wednesday night

Our view down the side of the boat