Leading the Blind

     On Sunday, Sharon and I anchored on Frederica River, just north of Brunswick, GA.  This was intentional so that we could stage ourselves to arrive early Monday morning at Brunswick Landing Marina.  Waiting at the marina was a new raw water pump I had ordered from American Diesel Corporation.  Also, we needed to get to that "marina" store to get some new battery cables and other things we had ordered on line and had dropped shipped to that store.  But that is another story we will not discuss at this time.  So on Monday morning we got a nice early start down the Mackay River towards St. Simons Sound.  As we entered the Sound, a sailboat and trawler joined us for the crossing.  As we were crossing the Sound, we could hear the sailboat and trawler conversing on the VHF radio.  At one point the gentleman on the trawler asked the lady on the sailboat for their location.  She replied she did not have an exact location and that he should follow the trawler (Big Run) in front of them.  As we approached the route for the ICW we turned northwest to go up the Brunswick River and onto the East River.  Again the gentleman on the trawler radioed the sailboat for a location and asked what bridge was that ahead.  The woman did not know their location but remarked the bridge was the Jekyll Island Bridge that had been under construction last year when they came through.  As we passed under the Sydney Lanier Bridge  at Brunswick the conversations continued as the boats followed us.  The gentleman on the trawler continued to ask for their present location but to no avail.  Shortly after passing under the bridge we turned to starboard to go up the East River and on to the marina.  The trawler and sailboat did not follow us. They continued up the Brunswick River.  About five minutes later Sharon heard a second male voice come on the radio to explain to the trawler that they were turning around.  I guess they were lost because they assumed we were transiting the ICW .  I guess you can say it was a case of the "not-so-blind" leading the blind.