Thursday April 21: McClellenville SC

After a great breakfast yesterday morning at the Seacow Eatery, we left Edisto Island and continued our travels north.

Although the current was with us on the way out of Store Creek, we fought the current the rest of the day on the South Edisto and finally called it a day at the anchorage at Church Creek - off of the Wadmalaw River.

Lots of no-see-ums as it was quite calm by then. Sunset was very nice even though we could not enjoy it from the flybridge.


Another early morning leave planned as we were looking to ride the currents today - particularly the swift flowing cut connecting the Stono River with the waters of the Port of Charleston where the currents can flow up to 3 mph against us.

Planned to leave early but the fog had other notions! So we waited.

A sailboat further in the anchorage left and we left shortly after.

It still wasn't totally clear but certainly enough that we were good to go.

In the end it turned out to be a really nice day with little wind.

And the currents were definitely going our way! Traveling at 10.1 mph and about to enter the Charleston Harbor with currents between 1 and 2 mph more!

Charleston is a very busy place with huge marinas and huge boats.

We've stopped here most time on the way by but today just drove on by. We were headed to McClellenville - about 40 miles beyond Charleston.

Tides and current in our favor!

The homes along the waterfront are really amazing - as are the homes scattered throughout the city.

And of course there is always Fort Sumter - place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

For more info: Fort Sumter


It was a long day and with the late fog delayed start, we didn't reach McClellenville until almost 5 pm. Later than we normally like to travel.

Funny thing when we pulled in? Here was Mary Lee - Sailor Dave's boat!! We first met Dave when we were in Baltimore for two months as Steve was recovering from his broken shoulder.

We've been fortunate to be able to see him occasionally as we traveled north/south along the coast throughout the years.

An email, then phone conversation. He and Vivian are living in Myrtle Beach - a short hour drive from Georgetown. They were available Friday night and could drive down to meet us for dinner on the boat!

It will be great catching up - can't wait to see them.

How fortunate we have been to be able to have friends that will make time in their schedule as we travel along ....