Tide goes up...tide goes down!

Tomorrow morning at 8:00 am we plan to head over to the fuel dock here at Lang's Marina to fill up and pump out the bathroom (called the head) holding tank. All of our waste is held in a tank on board until we can get it pumped out and safely disposed of (and you thought we just went overboard!). 8:06 am is high tide and that is good for us as there will be no current at that time (slack tide). It is much easier to manage the boat when you don't have tidal currents pushing you all over the place. Tides in Georgia can be pretty big, sometimes 8-10 ft. in one cycle. It is important to know about the local tide when you anchor. Our boat needs almost 5 feet of water under it at all times to float. Any less and we are aground. So when we anchor out we usually look for water around 13 ft. deep. Then we know that at low tide we will still be afloat. It is approaching low tide right now here at the marina. I am enclosing some pictures to show what that looks like. The docks we are tied to are floating docks so they go up and down with the tide. Right now the ramp leading to our dock is looking pretty steep. As the tide rises, that ramp will float higher and level out.