Brunswick Landing Marina is a solid reputation, and is particularly popular with mariners who choose to winter in southern Georgia. Downtown Brunswick is within walking distance, where several good restaurants are to be found.

BLM [Brunswick Landing Marina] is a hurricane hole, well protected. The facility is very nice as well, run by competent staff, and there’s night time security and a large liveaboard community to watch things as well.
Dave and Pam Gibson

I believe BLM refers to Brunswick Landing Marina in Brunswick, GA. We kept our boat there for 9 months, and I would agree, it is a well run marina and well protected.
Marc and Shelley Colby
M/V Rock Chalk

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Here’s a quick comment on Brunswick Landing Marina, copied from SailNet. This facility lies off the AICW,on the shores of Academy Creek, within walking distance of downtown Brunswick, GA.

St. Simon’s has a long, deep entrance channel. Few anchorages once inside, but there are a couple of good marinas. Brunswick Landing has good facilities, good rates, is very protected, and is in a better location if you don’t have wheels.
PorFin

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Brunswick Landing Marina lies on the eastern banks of Academy Creek, just off Brunswick River, near the heart of downtown Brunswick, Georgia.

Stayed here April 14-15, 2012. We stayed the better part of a month in 2009 because we liked the town and the monthly rate.The river on which it is built is considered a hurricane hole and many insurance companies may discount your policy for keeping your boat here durring the season.
Sherry still runs the marina. Her chihuahua, `Killer’ has a new companion, `Danger’, another chihuahua.
They have installed a `dock-side’ pump-out station at the gas dock so boaters no longer have to wait for high tide for Sherry to use the `Everlasting Gobslopper’ which is now retired.
It’s a floating dock marina so drop your fenders to the waterline as you approach.
The town has a couple small grocery stores and the Grog Shop’ liquor store are within (daytime) walking distance. Downtown (near the marina) restaurants come and go and there are a few decent ones as I write this. Further away, about a mile, West Marine and grocery stores await.
Taxi fare seems high to me but car rental companies will deliver a car right to the marina and I-95 traffic is close enough to see from the marina.
Every main pier has a gas grill for all to use so fire up some steaks and shrimp.
Clean restrooms and more books in the `leave one-take one’ library than you could read in a lifetime.
Laundry is still free.
Max Miller

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Big Tom Creek cuts the eastern banks of the Waterway, south of flashing daybeacon #105A.

We anchored here on 4/8/2012. We dropped right over the 9 ft mark on the chart and the hook grabbed quickly. The charted depths are accurate. Deep side to side. Unnerving ‘˜monster sounds’ from shore in the middle of the night (cows snoring, I presume).
Max Miller

April is alligator mating season’¦.noises you heard were gators bellowing!
Will

oh my’¦.glad I’ve got an aluminum dinghy, not an inflatable’¦
Wally Moran

We hear those rumbling sounds all around during mating season here in Florida ‘“ mostly April and May. It would be unnerving if you’d never heard it before and didn’t know! The big guys can really belt out a roar!
Bob McLeran

We anchored in the Wahoo River south of St. Catherine’s Sound just off the AICW last February and heard the same monster sounds. My wife got no sleep that night!
Buzz Savage

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Wallys Leg Anchorage is on the waters of Wallys Leg, west of flashing daybeacon #231.
In reviewing my on-site notes taken during our last visit to Wallys Leg, I can confirm that the shallow water that Captain Miller found abutting the northern shore is for real. We have always been able to find sufficient swing room to comfortably anchor vessels as large as 40 feet by favoring the southerly shoreline slightly, and dropping the hook near the stream’s mouth.
We would be very interested to hear from more cruisers who have, or have attempted, to anchor in Wallys Leg. What did you discover. Please click the “Comment on This Posting/Marina/Anchorage/Bridge” link below, and share your information.

On 4/7/2012, I tried to motor a circle here to assure swing room and ran aground on the north shore as soon as I left the center of the river. I gave up on this anchorage. I didn’t record the depths as charted.
Max Miller

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Fort McAllister Marina lies on the Ogeechee River’s southern banks, well off the AICW and upstream of Waterway marker #98.
Actually, this is not a “newer” marina in the strictest sense, as it’s been at its current location for many years. However, Captain Colleen and Stan are right in the sense that this facility underwent a major renovation and upgrade a couple of years ago!

To all you cruisers not in a hurry, this marina/stop is a must! Ft.McAllister Marina is a beautiful newer marina in Richmond Hill, GA. Ritchie Roberts (912) 727-2632 marina #, (912) 213-1368 cell#, is the manager and so nice and helpful! the cost here is very reasonable, just $1.00 foot, plus $5.00 for electric!!! you can afford to stay a few days and tour the historical Civil War Fort McAllister and the “Ford” museum, that’s Henry Ford. Ritchie will let you take his truck during the day sightseeing or go to the local supermarket for provisions. there is a restaurant on site, “Fish Tales” open Mon. – Thur. 4PM – 10 PM, Fri & Sat. 11 AM – 12 AM , Sunday 11 AM – 8PM. well worth the stop heading north in the spring or south in the winter… Just 8 miles up the Ogeechee River off the ICW on Ossabaw Sound! this just might be the New BEST destination.
Colleen, Stan, and Maybea2 on the Power Cat, Next Endeavour

The Ogeechee River is an excellent example of a river that follows the “rules of a mud bottom channel”! Look at the chart up to Ft. McAllister Marina and you will see what we’re talking about. DO NOT GO UP THERE FOLLOWING THE CENTER OF THE RIVER!!!!
Chuck Gorgen

The river is well marked by green and red buoys all the way to the marina!we went in at low tide, it is much better if you draft over 4 ft to go in at slack tide or high tide, it is so worth the trip if your boat will take you there!
Colleen, Stan and Maybea2

The charts, both paper and Garmin and Navionics are not worth a tinker’s dam [in cruising to Fort McAllister Marina, up the Ogeechee River from the AICW]. Follow the markers until you get to the sign on the right bank that points across the river and says Marina. Then 90 degrees to port at sign and go within 100 yards of left bank where you turn upriver to marina. Now all your charts will tell you that as you cross the river you will run aground in two feet of water but if you continue straight at the sign it is deep water all the way. Nay, it is just the opposite. Alex at the marina saw us and called on the phone to warn me we were going to be in trouble.
He saved us just barely. Call ahead and stay in touch with them as you go up. Great stop and great food. Very friendly folks. Current runs fast at
dock.
Rusty and Jan Carlisle

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Two Way Fish Camp is on the South Altamaha River’s southerly shores (west of the Waterway’s unlighted daybeacon #216A), a short hop east of the 35-foot fixed bridge and is the home of some of the largest alligators you will find outside the Okefenokee.

Stopped here in February 2012. It is 4.2 miles off the AICW and the currents are strong ‘“ 1.5 to 2 kts was my experience. Some shallow spots but the river is marked. No one to help with dock lines in the strong current. Showers not heated, wifi would not work. Did not notice until dark but the electric pedestal I hooked my electric to was mis-wired. It had a polarity reversal. Not a real problem but it did mess up my Link 10 monitor system.
Earl Beard

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Walburg Creek shapes the east side of Walburg Island and the Waterway lies on the west side. Good depths and great beach combing. While the creek has both a northern and southern entrance from the AICW, we prefer the northern passage, though there is still an unmarked shoal in St. Catherine’s Sound which must be bypassed.

Dear Claiborne,
We departed Shelter Cove Marina, Broad Creek (MM 560)Hilton Head SC around 9am 12/28/11. The wind was really blowing so we decided to stay inside. It was sunny and pleasant making the days cruise very enjoyable. Around 4:30pm We crossed St Catherines Sound (MM 620) southbound into Walburg Creek. We dropped the hook about a mile down in 20 feet of water. In minutes I was sitting on the foredeck of our Silverton 37 with a strong cold drink, smoking a cigar absorbing the last minutes of a huge golden sunset.
After a quiet night we were underway and heading out St Catherines Sound inlet into the Atlantic southbound for St Simons Inlet. Conditions were perfect as the wind was light with waves 1 ft.
This anchorage is perfectly located in both distance from Hilton Head and St Simons Island and access to the Atlantic.
Walburg Creek is a magic place!
Best,
Kurt Kuykendall
M/V Jus Relaxin
Silverton 37 Conv

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Frederica River flows east and south from the ICW’s unlighted daybeacon #229. Previous postings on the Cruisers’ Net have established that a dinghy dock has opened here, where formerly landings at the National Monument were not permitted from the adjacent anchorage. Happily, it’s now easy to come ashore and tour this most worthwhile attraction. Just take note of the two hour “dry” time at the dinghy dock reported correctly below by Captain Jim!

Subject: Ft Frederica on St Simon Island GA is open to the public
Cruising News:
Ft. Frederica National Monument is open to the public in spite of chart and cruising guide nay sayers. You can anchor off the fort (5 stars by my estimation) and dinghy to the dock a few hundred yards south of fort. This is Oglethorpe’s 42nd regiment fort that staged the battle of Bloody Marsh the turned the Spanish attempted conquest of Georgia and forced them back to Florida!
Be careful of tide–the dinghy dock is dry two hours before and after the low tide.
Had to pole off to get back to boat –oops
Capt. Jim aboard S/V Lady Lady

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Cattle Pen Creek cuts into the eastern banks of the Waterway’s Johnson Creek stretch between unlighted daybeacons #127 and #128.
Cruising News:
2/Nov/11 Arriving at high tide in our 42ft sailboat, draft 5’6″, and taking note of previous information on shoaling, we turned into the Creek taking a centre line between the banks and proceeded down the centre of the creek approx 3/4 of a mile until waters started to shallow quickly to 7ft but up to that time we did not see less than 13ft on the depth sounder.
We retraced our track and set anchor about a 1/2 mile above the entrance where we recorded 7ft at low water that night.
3/Nov/11 Departing this morning at 1 hour before low tide we followed the south bank out – we registered good depths between 11-20ft. The creek is narrow and is best in a NE but where we anchored was adequate swinging room for us even at 42ft long. Excellent holding in good, thick mud.
William Spouse

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