Good Ol' Southern Hospitality

     After spending a week in Brunswick GA, we continued our trip south on the ICW today.  Our stay in Brunswick was not all play, but the fruits of our labor were a little sour.  The watermaker, despite all the parts that have been swapped out, still does not want to cooperate with us.  Our latest attempt to "fix" the watermaker involved the replacement of the pump head, and once again it has failed to produce potable water.  Again we called our new BFF in Florida, but this time we made arrangements for the watermaker dealer to inspect and troubleshoot the watermaker himself.  On a good note, while we were at Brunswick we made a trip over to a  local fuel dock to fill up Big Run's fuel tanks.  While we were there we managed to get free water, which should hold us over until we get to Riviera Beach in Florida.

     When we weren't working on the boat in Brunswick, we were with our good friends from S/V Meant To Be, Ken and Cindy, who have a water front home on Back River/Terry Creek.  On Monday, our second day in Brunswick, Cindy called to see if we wanted a ride into town.  As full time cruisers you never turn down an opportunity and what an opportunity it turned out to be.  As Cindy ran a few errands around town, we got a chance to get a feel for the layout of the town.  Later, Cindy stopped at Wal-Mart for a few items, and well, we managed to fill up one grocery cart with just about everything we needed to reprovision the boat.  Later that day we were invited to Ken and Cindy's beautiful home for dinner. The next day, Tuesday,  we spent putting the previous day's bounty away.  The following day we received another golden opportunity, the use of Cindy's car to run additional errands in town.  Wow, Big Run is now better provisioned than she ever has been.  In a small gesture on our part we invited Ken & Cindy out for dinner, but of course they would have to drive!  They took us over to St. Simon Island where we got a very nice tour of the island before going to the restaurant Iguana for dinner where we enjoyed the best fried shrimp ever.  Then on Friday was a totally unique experience for full time cruisers.  We went to the local high school football game which also included a wonderful tailgate party prior to the game.  Our time spent in Brunswick was truly a very memorable page to be written in our log.  Thank you Ken and Cindy for some good ol' southern hospitality.