We woke up to some large wakes rocking the boat (one downside to anchoring right along the ICW), and so we got up and under way. Nice easy sail off anchor just rolling out the genoa after pulling up the anchor.

We had a nice downwind sail from our anchorage to just short of the Alligator River swing bridge, where the wind died down enough that we put away the sails and motored along. This swing bridge operator is great, and they open on request and seem to be really good at timing everything nicely. We had a great experience coming through here on our way down, and again this time, and everyone else we hear on the VHF also seems too.

Anyways, nice and easy transit, and we decided to tuck in and anchor. The winds weren't great for sailing, and we didn't want to make it a super long day either. We choose a little anchorage just up Little Alligator Creek that looked like it had good protection. Not much wind protection, but no fetch so nice and flat. When we got there the wind had picked up a little with more forecast. We anchored up and everything seemed to be fine, we backed down on the anchor and all was looking good, but after an hour or so we started dragging very slowly. At first seemed like just a GPS jump, but then more, and more, etc.

So we decided to re-anchor in the now stronger winds. We pulled up anchor, moved a slight bit and dropped again, but found ourselves dragging again when backing down. So we tried a third time, taking thing slow to give the anchor time to settle in the presumably mud bottom. But again, it dragged when we backed down.

Getting somewhat defeated we moved a little further out and tried a forth time. This time the anchor hooked up and we were fine even backing down hard. This was re-assuring as we knew more wind was coming and dragging in the night is no fun at all.

With that all out of the way, we had a nice evening at anchor and we are thinking we might stay here 2 nights as we need a little time to catch up on work, school, tasks, etc. We've been moving a lot lately so a down day will be nice.