Our transit from Calabash to Holden Beach was uneventful as the Shallotte Inlet section was dredged over the winter since our passage southbound in Jan. On the way south we saw less than 6ft of water (our draft is 5ft), but now it was all over 12ft deep. The weather continued to be great for our arrival at the beach. But a storm was forecasted for the evening.
There were lots of shells to pick through as we walked a couple miles up the beach to the Lockwoods Folly inlet, another shallow spot on the ICW, but also dredged while we were in Florida.
There were lots of smells for Rivah to check out along the high tide line. While it was sunny with blue skies, the northwest wind was quite cool.
By the end of the day, Sue had another large collection of shells to transport back to Yorktown.
That night a storm blew through with heavy surf crashing on the beach. Before departing the next morning we walked over to the beach to check what had washed up over the night, but the tide was still so high that there was little to see but sand and foam.
It was time to get underway soon as we needed to get through the next shallow water spot, Snow's Cut, before low tide. That area has still not been dredged. We got there a couple hours before low tide and passed through with no problem although we did see about 6 ft right at the entrance to the cut by Carolina Beach.
