Departing Georgetown for Charleston. Was a nice visit with warm, sunny days. This time of year the town dock was free each day giving easy access to town without putting the dinghy in the water.
Heading into the ICW from the Waccamaw River. Up ahead is the floating swing bridge that crosses the ICW. This is are first time down the ICW from Georgetown in last 10 years. We've been going out to sea at the Waccamaw Inlet for the past few years.
This year we only have a 24hr wind window to transit offshore on Monday to Florida so we head down to Charleston and put out to sea there.
This an interesting bridge. It is basically a barge with an asphalt road on the deck. Here it's in its berth next to shore. When vehicles need to transit it swings out across the ICW.
This is an upgrade from what used to be here when we came through 10 years ago. Then it was a small one vehicle barge that was pulled back and forth across the ICW via cables.
We could get to Charleston in one day but the winds don't shift for us until Monday morning so we'll take two days to get there. Halfway to Charleston is a nice anchorage at Awendaw. We've stopped here several times. Usually its very quiet and isolated, but these days they are depositing dredging residue on the island. There were several construction cranes and dozers there, but thankfully on Saturday night all was quiet.
Sunday morning sunrise after a quiet night. We are off for Charleston today.
This is the view for most of the day. Marsh lands between the mainland and the ocean. A few fishermen out this morning but very few people live along this area.
Anchored off Fort Johnson, just up the river from Fort Sumter. We have one other boat neighbor.
Nice spot to watch the Charleston sailing races on a Sunday morning. Three classes of sailboats raced a couple races each.
A bit rolly here with lots of boat wakes from far away boats, but we will be leaving early in the morning, heading out the inlet and on to Florida.
