The trips to St Simons and St Augustine occurred at low tide making it hard to navigate. It was important to stay within the channel which was very narrow making it difficult to pass another vessel and many times less than 8' deep ! Being from the Keys I'm used to skinny water but at least in the Keys you can see how shallow it is, not so in these waters making an accurate depth sounder at these shallow depths very valuable. Wish I had one !! The tide remained low, the banks were muddy until we reached St. Augustine and like a miracle the Florida that I thought I would see appeared. The water was much cleaner, visibility returned and I began to feel comfortable again.
Fort Matanzas- St. Augustine