The anchor came up clean this morning, as we began our morning continuing to the south. Our journey today took us through the South Carolina low country, having departed from the fresh waters we were in yesterday, to the salt marsh today.
I love the marshes, and the abundance of the wading birds. The transition has brought pelicans as well, and dolphins rolling alongside the boat. We've missed seeing these friends of the south.
Then we lost the marsh to be surrounded by civilization with Isle of Palms to the south, and Mt. Pleasant to the north, as we continued on.
Crossing Charleston Harbor seemed much shorter to me today. It is amazing how much longer the ride can seem on days the wind is howling and you are bucking a tide.... Today was gorgeous, in that there was almost no wind, and we had a current pushing us.
We caught up to our friends on the SEASALT, an Island Packet, who were circling at the mouth of Elliott Cut, to time their transit with the next bridge opening. We are low enough to not have to wait for the bridge.
We remembered plucking a little boy floating down that current in a life jacket with our dinghy earlier this year.
After we went through Elliott Cut, we turned to the north, and went past Edgewater Park to anchor in the 15' of water behind the shoal. The forecast for the evening was for winds N around 5, and it was late enough in the day that the ICW traffic was waning, and cloudy and rainy enough that locals hadn't been running around too much that day. I would be concerned about high winds from anywhere but the north, and you definitely can get some wake from the ICW, so it might not always be a good anchorage.... but, for tonight it was great!
We watched grilled chicken, and watched Survivor (our one hour of tv we try to catch each week!) and settled in for a quiet evening.
It was still enough I heard birds all during the night.
48.6 nm today, approx ICW mi 472
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