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| Leaving Georgetown, SC at first light |
Thursday, 10/08/15
Today, we needed to time our passage into Charleston Harbor just right to avoid a pretty nasty shoaling area right before the harbor. At low tide, it is 2 feet deep! Our goal was to pass this area sometime after 1:30 in order to be midway to high tide. That way, if we got stuck, we wouldn't have to wait too long before the tide floated us off the shoaling.
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| The morning sun on the bay was brilliant! |
With a 54 mile trip ahead of us and lots of uncertainty regarding the intracoastal waterway, we left at 7:30. The morning was beautiful, clear and calm. PTL!!!
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To get an early start, we had
breakfast underway
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| The entrance to the intracoastal is at the red marker ahead |
Our entrance to the intracoastal waterway was only a few miles down Winyah Bay from Georgetown. What an amazing morning to travel!
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The trip through this part of the
intracoastal was peaceful |
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| The sun shining on the reeds looked like diamonds on the water! |
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| Lots of snowy egrets along the intracoastal waterway |
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| ...and great blue herons |
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| A vestige of an old rice paddy gate |
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| A young osprey |
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| We scared a blue heron into flight |
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| We loved watching the morning fog rise through the trees |
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| There were quite a few of these old rice field irrigation gates |
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| Barb enjoying the stillness of the wetlands |
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| We were driving these cormorants down stream as we went |
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| This cormorant did a U turn trying to get out of the way |
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| Looks like he wandered off the channel! |
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| Dolphins traveled alongside us a number of times |
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| Mark & Barb watching the dolphins... |
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| ...playing under the bow |
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We were surprised to see this house out in the middle
of the marsh land. No roads or electricity here! |
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| The red boat in the middle is Samba. Notice all the little creeks! |
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Woo hoo. The Charleston bridge
in the distance. |
Our timing for passage through the severe shoaling in the Isle of Palms area was good. The last few miles before it, we slowed way down as we were making better time than we had anticipated. By the time we hit the bad part, the water was plenty deep for us. Phew!!!
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| Notice the boat name. Looks the girls are having a good time in the Isle of Palms area. |
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| We weren't sure whether the South was rising again or sinking! |
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| The beautiful suspension bridge at Charleston Harbor |
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Castle Pinkney in front of the Arthur
Ravenal Bridge in Charleston Harbor |
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Mark & Jim raising our antennas after we went under the
31' swing bridge in the Isle of Palms area |
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| Entering the Charleston City Marina's mega dock area |
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Everyone pitching in to secure Samba
at the Charleston City Marina |
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| Woo Hoo - we made it!!! |
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The driver of the marina's courtesy van
helping us decide where to go first |
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| The monument to Calhoun |
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Rotary International's fountain. The inscription is one of Rotary's
4 tenets |
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The large holocaust memorial in
downtown Charleston
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| This old castle is now an Embassy Suites hotel |
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| Can you tell it's nearly Halloween? |
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| Dinner at a little pub downtown Charleston
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