Leg 3: Fernandina Beach Municipal ( Feranandina Beach FL) to Lowcountry Regional (Walterboro SC)
Good hop and we dodged most of the bad weather while passing some of the gorgeous Georgia and South Carolina coastline - 145 nm, 01:26:00 enroute.
Blustery day even from the ramp:
Just north of Fernandina Beach is Georgia’s Cumberland Island National Seashore:
Very nice houses facing the Atlantic on McKinnon St. Simons Island:
Why it’s called the Low Country - a mix of fresh and saltwater reservations and wilderness with small settlements:
Added another 1,000’ to stay above a scattered cloudbase, as we catch a brief glimpse of Savannah GA:
Crossing over into SC, we fly over Pritchardville and catch a view of the exclusive Hilton Head island in the mid-horizon:
We dogleg west to stay out of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort’s airspace, located across the Broad River:
A nice shot of the Cessna JT-A - just because
Declaring pop-up IFR as ASOS is reporting low viz at Lowcountry Regional, we turn into the approach for R17 (ATC insisting R23 even though the wind was from the south):
Passing over Colleton County High School on approach, and the field is indeed slightly obscured: