SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012
I slept pretty well after the LOUD music
stopped after one o’clock. I guess
you are wondering why I only tell you about my sleeping habits. Gary usually goes to sleep in under 5
minutes unless he is thinking (about important stuff like buying a CD player at WalMart, getting holding tank stuff, where to stop, etc. ). Then he’s up for hours.
After we got up, we decided to walk to the
bagel shop that sells the best New York bagels in the South. At least that’s what the guy outside of
the Palm & Moon said last night when we went by.
I liked the décor and Gary read all of the signs on the walls about
bagels and the South Carolina flag.
We both thought the bagels were very good, but we’re not the New York
bagel experts like our Joel. I
think I had Jamaica Me Crazy coffee.
I liked the taste, but I’m no coffee expert either. I usually drink one cup at a time a
couple of days a week.
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| Gary reading about the SC flag |
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| Coffee cup chair |
Just a few pictures I took on the way back
to the marina.
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| Chickens in a florist window |
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| Flowers by the waterfront park |
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| Stone seat |
After we got back to the boat we decided
not to wait for slack tide since both of the boats behind us had already
left. We moved around to the fuel
dock to get a little diesel and a pumpout. I started to talk to a guy and his parents on a 46’ sport
cruiser about his trip to the Bahamas. His boat was named Sweetie Pie. His wife came back with breakfast and
he said she is the sweetie. I told
him that Gary is the sweetie in our family, not me. He was already using the
diesel hose and by the time he finished he had pumped 198 gallons of fuel
($896.00 worth). Gary pumped 21.1
gallons for about $90. That took
us from a little less than half a tank to ¾ of a tank.
We pulled away from the dock at
about 10:00 a.m. heading for the bridge (that we didn’t need to open). This boat has an airdraft of 16.5 feet
and usually doesn’t have to open many bridges. That is compared to our sailboat that had a 63-foot mast and
had to open almost all of the bridges.
We bounced around for what seemed to be
quite a while and then the water smoothed right on out. After some beautiful houses close to Beaufort, most of the scenery today was mostly trees,
marsh grass and brown water . It
kinda reminds us of Georgia again.
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| House on the water |
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| Sights along the way |
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| Also this one |
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| This one too |
We hit some REALLY shallow water around
Red Mark 110 just before we planned to stop. For a while it looked like we might run aground even in this
boat. Gary has been watching Independence
(our former buddy boat) for the last hour and they have hardly moved at
all. They must be having to wait
for the tide to fill in that particularly shallow spot we came through
earlier. We surely would have run
aground in the sailboat since it needed 5 feet of water instead of 3 ½ like the
tug. On the other hand, there have
been times so far on this trip (like this morning when a big sport fish
boat really bounced us around pretty bad) when we could’ve used the stability
of the sailboat.
We stopped in Tom Point Creek (still in
South Carolina) at about 4:30p.m.
We’re back to the days of the anchor up, drive, stop, anchor down, eat,
read and relax (take nap today) routine.
We have gone a total of 272 miles in the 8
days we’ve traveled. According to
the chartplotter, we covered 41 miles in 6.75 hours today.
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| View from the anchorage |
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| Another picture of the anchorage |
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