Nothing Could Be Finer .....

…..than to be in Carolina.


It has been a while since our last post (no internet service), so let’s see if we can catch you up on where we’ve been and what we’ve seen.

People who have made the trip up and down the ICW (Intercoastal Waterway) before have told us it is boring and it may be if you’ve made the trip many times, but for us it is all new. I thought I would get a lot of reading done on the trip – not so at all. We are both so busy looking all around us at the scenery. Some is ho-hum, but most is so beautiful. And if we get bored with that we still have to watch for the next marker so we make sure we stay in the channel and don’t run aground. We have taken many pictures while underway – nature, birds, other boats, lighthouses, mile-long docks, etc.

One of the pictures we are posting is of an overhead lift (like on ski slopes), only it is for a golf course (in Myrtle Beach, SC). The golf course is on one side of the ICW and the lift takes people from Myrtle Beach on the other side – very interesting! The sailboat in that picture is of “Interim”, New York, NY with Carol, Bill, and Simon (dog) aboard. We first met them in Annapolis and struck up a conversation because they have a Gulfstar also. Unplanned, we ran into them weeks later at Camp Lejeune, Little River, Wrightsville Beach, and Charleston. Enjoyed happy hour and dinner with them several times. Hope to see them later in Vero Beach.

We left Wrightsville Beach Saturday, 10/27/07 and headed for Little River, SC, which is right on the SC/NC border – nothing noteworthy there. Headed to Georgetown, SC on Sunday, the 28th. It is a pleasant, quaint southern town. We stayed there for two nights to let the wind blow itself out – and boy did it (the first night anyway). Left there Tuesday morning, heading towards Charleston, SC. We stopped in Price Creek, about 25 miles north of Charleston, SC. We could see the lights of Charleston on the horizon. Price Creek goes out to the Atlantic Ocean and is very narrow, although quite deep (20’), as far as the ICW goes. We were about a mile or so from the beach and thought we would take the dogs out to run, as well as watch the breakers come in, but, the current was strong when we anchored so we decided not to. Instead we sat on the boat and watched the dolphins, actually porpoises, swim all around us.

We arrived in Charleston on Halloween. We had no trick or treaters. The pictures below are along the way to Charleston. More about Charleston later.

'Interim' (above & right)

Georgetown

City Clock

Tower

(left)

We are far enough south to finally see Palm trees!