Following a short cruise on the ICW, we arrived to St Simon's Island & docked @ Golden Isles Morningstar Marina. There is a strong current here & we needed to pump-out plus our dock was not empty yet so we pulled alongside the face dock which was much easier than pulling into a slip during the strong current. The Marina has nice wide fairways & Mitch was a very helpful dockhand.
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| Movie set/Downtown street |
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| props from the movie |
Our friends from the Nordhaven, Tivoli were docked nearby @ the Brunswick, GA Marina. We invited them over to Day Dreams for cocktails and then they took us to downtown Brunswick for dinner to a cool trendy new place. The downtown is in the process of a regeneration due to the filming of a Warner Bros movie. They are in the prep phase with props, building facades and even a whole building shell placed in a vacant lot. Filming of Ben Affleck's Prohibition Era movie: "Live By Night" with Ben Affleck directing & acting begins in November. Watch for it!
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| more movie props |
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| Facades for movie |
We like St Simon's, so we stayed for a couple of nights & biked around the island, stopping @ Cricket's Swimwear & a delicious Italian restaurant called Sal's.
When we left St Simon's, we went off shore back out into the Atlantic Ocean. We had lots of sun with light winds: swells 1-3 ft 10 secs with 2 ft waves so our ride was very enjoyable. We were out for the daylight hours & then anchored just inside the entrance of the St John's River before sunset.
The next morning, we arrived @ our temporary home: The Marina @ Ortega Landings. We will stay here for a month. We stayed here last December and loved it. Pool, hot tub & free laundry. Our niece, her husband & our great niece live here in Jacksonville, Florida & we love spending time with them. They took us with them to Disney Hollywood park on Halloween and we had a blast!
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| The Tower of Terror |
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| Doug with his favorite Muppet! |
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| After our ride on the Rocking Aerosmith Roller Coaster |
