Lowcountry Greetings!!

November 10, 2007

This post covers South Carolina as well as Georgia, in the lowcountry. It has been quite cold the last 3 or 4 mornings – in the 30’s and 40’s. We were not ready for this. Thank goodness for the cockpit enclosure! It has been in the high 50’s in the boat when we wake up, brrrrrrrr. We start out with about three or four layers, and peel them off as the sun comes up and warms the enclosure. It generally warms up to the upper 60’s – low 70’s by 2:00pm. We can actually wear shorts inside the enclosure by lunchtime, but it is a little chilly outside for that, but only because of the wind. The dogs think the temperature is perfect. And I guess if you wear a heavy winter coat all the time it does feel good.

Savannah has caught on to the dolphins surfacing around us, and watches for them. We had dolphins all around us the other evening after we anchored and she got quite excited.

We don’t travel very fast, maybe 6 kts., but we passed a little yellow sailboat the other day, approx. 23’ towing a 14’-15’ skiff. We arrived at our anchorage for the evening and about 2 hours later in comes the little yellow boat. We leave in the morning about 6:15am, and go til 3 or 4 and here comes the little yellow boat in about 2 hrs or so after we are anchored. What’s the point in going faster, he gets to the same place we do almost every night. We are all heading south.

We check out the names of some of the boats we’ve see – here are some unusual ones: BUTTER & EGGS; CHIPS AHOY; RUM TUM TIGER; WISHES GRANTED.