Soon we were in the Waccamaw River, the most scenic section of the ICW.
In the Spring this is a beautiful passage when the leaves and buds are out. In January, its a bit grey but still has its unique beauty.
We're down south with Spanish Moss hanging from the cypress forests. Spooky on a grey day, but scenic on a bright, blue sky day.
We anchor at the intersection of the Waccamaw River and Cow Island oxbow. In the spring, we usually anchor behind Cow Island in the oxbow to get away from the ICW traffic but, in January there is almost no traffic and plenty of room to anchor just off the ICW. We anchored just to the left of the small power boat which has been in this same spot the last 5 years.
The anchorage is directly across from the Wacca Wache Marina where we refueled up as they have the cheapest diesel prices on the ICW. We also needed to fill up the water tanks as we will be heading out to the ocean and on to Florida when we leave here.
We were fortunate to come in just a couple hours before they turned the water off as it is forecasted to go well below freezing the next couple nights.
We anchored for one night then noted that the nightly temperatures for the next two nights were 28 and 26 degrees. That's a bit cold with no heat onboard and we have to be careful the cockpit shower hoses and nozzle don't freeze, so we decided we better head over to the marina and plug into shore power. It was a nice stop and nice to have heat and hot showers. They had a good restaurant onsite so it was beers and appetizers each night.
Sunday morning we're off for Florida. We'll be leaving in 26 degree weather and arriving in 66 degrees.
