Creeks

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Two Cats in a Creek

One of the first cruising boats we met- oh we met the owners too of course- was Indigo a 42’ Chris White catamaran.  We’d ended our day early and stopped at a marina right alongside the ICW in Coinjock, NC. The place is as rustic as it sounds. Indigo ended their day early also, which for them is 5pm; typically they are in delivery mode. They gave us good tips on stops to make along the way and a few spots where jumping off the ICW would be fun.  Their journey ends in the Bahamas and they use the spurt method ; push hard for a week, leave the boat at a good marina for a month, fly in, provision, travel hard for a week and after a few spurts – voila! Bahamas.

Saw them once in Florida as they zoomed past on their get to Lake Worth spurt. We keep in touch via email from time to time. Saturday night, after a slew of emails with each of us trying to determine how far we’d get, select a decent creek and all that daily cruising fun stuff it all came together. As the first to arrive (not that we are fast, but Indigo began their day 30 miles north of Georgetown), we launched our dinghy and readied for happy hour. Yes, they looked as we remembered and we caught up while Linda’s chicken was roasting away. Good news: plenty of good sailing in the Exumas.

Dinghy service provided for Indigo

Early the next morning- earlier than usual due to the clock reset back to EDT- we spotted our first bald eagle. Much of the morning’s trip took us through the Cape Romaine Wildlife Refuge. Plenty of sights to ogle.

BALD EAGLE HANGS OUT BY THE ICW

Passed through Charleston Harbor and picked up of first large pack of boats at the Wappoo Creek Bascule Bridge.  Left them all behind and anchored for the night in another creek- well this was a river, but not a very wide one.

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Georgetown, SC Revisited

Tuesday, Nov 1 we ended our day early to take care of some of those fun chores that require us to touch land: laundry and provisioning. We tossed in dinner out for the simple reason that the bistro- Joseph’s Italian, was a 3 minute walk from the boat. It was excellent and reasonably priced. We debated bottle or glass on the wine; our waiter tipped us off to the 1/2 price bottle special- ok then, a bottle of their house wine. Quite good actually. We are consuming the leftovers tonight; how budget friendly is that?

Wed night found us anchored in a small creek just off the ICW; we’d stopped at the same spot last fall and it was an easy, no problem stop. This time we had a couple other boats for company as well as Mr. Lazy Turtle lounging on a floating branch. We’d passed into South Carolina and really began to feel “southern”. Interesting houses appeared along the way and we couldn’t figure out just what bird species needed to congregate on a red roof.

This is for the birds

Home sweet dome- South Carolina

Thursday we arrived at Harborwalk Marina in Georgetown. It’s a terrific historic waterfront town… with one huge drawback; the paper mill. Lady luck was on board this time and the wind blew the smell away. We strolled and shopped, enjoying a near 70 degree day with only a breath of wind. We talked about life “apres Ortolan” and once we’d gotten the RV life out of the way, we’d like to live in a small bungalow someplace very retiree friendly. It must have a porch and it must not be stodgy! Sort of like this cutie, only a small second story would be nice.. or maybe not- stairs may be a problem some day..

A CUTE HOME IN GEORGETOWN, SC