6/28/07 – I slept in relatively late this morning and ate a hearty breakfast of oatmeal. I weighed anchor at around 10:00am and got going. There was a good south wind for a good part of the day so I sailed and motor sailed all day. I was debating whether or not to anchor in Georgetown for the evening or continue on to another anchorage further north. I finally decided to keep going because as I looked ahead on the charts, I noticed that there were very few good anchorages for about a thirty mile stretch between Bucksport and the North Carolina border. I continued north on canals through cypress swamps. These were very interesting; there were large trees that appear to be growing right out of the water at high tide. At low tide, all of their roots are exposed. I dropped my anchor at the mouth of a creek and after a day of seeing nearly no boats, a guy on a jet ski rode up and said hello. He warned me about the alligators in the marsh but said that the chances of getting bitten by one were very low. I decided to tempt fate and went swimming in the first fresh water of the trip, but only after scanning the surface of the water very carefully for ‘gators. I had a nice pasta dinner and watched the sun set over the cypress swamp.
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