Heading for Georgia

Leaving Charleston, we set off on a twisting, turning path. We traveled down the Stono River and cut over to the Wadmalaw River, then to the Dawho River and onto North Creek. After North Creek, we entered the South Edisto River through Watts Cut, then through Fenwick Cut to the Ashepoo River. That was followed by the Ashepoo/Coosaw Cut, to Rock Creek, and then back into Ashepoo/Coosaw Cut, which dumped us into the Coosaw River. By that time, we'd traveled 7 hours, and had enough of rivers and cuts for one day. SOO, we turned off of the Coosaw River, up Parrot Creek, and into Bass Creek for our overnight anchorage. Does you head hurt yet? It's as frustrating as it sounds to maneuver all of that!

Our anchorage was great. Looking around us, you'd think we anchored in Nebraska, if it had waterfront. Nothing but fields as far as you could see, with trees in the distance. You'd never know that it was so close to the intracoastal. We had the place to ourselves until just before sunset, when a sailboat came in to join us. As he passed us to drop anchor nearby, he said "you surprised me, I thought I had the place to myself when I didn't see any sailboat masts." Yes, Virginia, there ARE other boats out there, not just those who sail!

We enjoyed both a beautiful sunset last night, and sunrise this am. We then started on again, for another "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" of rivers and cuts. After coming out of our anchorage, and back into the Coosaw River, we traveled through Brickyard Creek and into the Beaufort River. That took us to Port Royal Sound, a massive ocean inlet, and then into Skull Creek followed by Calibogue Sound. We then cut the northwest side of Daufuskie Island , via the Cooper River, where we are anchored tonight.

This anchorage is very similar to last night's, not quite as rural, but very close. The tides here vary by about 7 feet. When we anchored, we could see boats traveling the intracoastal, as well as a few marinas and houses. As sunset approaches, we can no longer see these things, because of the falling tide level. It's actually pretty weird.

Tonight, we put away our Thanksgiving decorations and got the Christmas things out. I packed a "boatload" of lights on board, as well as a perfect sized, skinny tree for our boat(thanks to Bill Garton's handy work!). Scott strung white lights on our bow rails. We hope to finish out lighting decorations while we're in Savannah this weekend, so we'll be traveling with some Christmas spirit!

Some pictures of the last few days' travel.