ICW - Whiteside Creek Anchorage

There are many trouble spots on the ICW that are called trouble due to low water, shoaling, etc.  There are also many bridges that operate on restricted schedules and these need to be coordinated with the tides of the trouble spots.  For this reason we had to travel almost 80 miles today on Wednesday, November 19th and spent the night at the Whiteside Creek Anchorage.  We left Osprey Marina at sunrise with frost on our dodger windows and a temperature of 28 degrees!  The fog on the ICW almost made it impossible to see the boats in front of us.  It is a bit nerve racking to see birds standing on the ground just a few feet away from our boat as we travelled through some of those trouble spots!  This area is full of salt marsh lands and the docks from land out to the water are very long – we did see one owner drive a golf cart to the end of his dock.