Charleston

Thoroughfare Creek to Awendaw Creek                  Awendaw to Charleston

November 6-7

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The last couple of days we have traveled from Thoroughfare Creek to  a beautiful anchorage called Awadamaw and then to Charleston. 

The cruise to Awadamaw included some areas that were supposed to have very bad shoaling and shallow water. We cruised on the rising tide and we passed a barge dredging what were shallow areas. We had plenty of water. 

One more pic of the trees!

Beautiful morning on the water. 

There was a large flock of birds hanging (feeding?) out on the port side of the ICW. We really hadn’t been seeing flocks like that and as we approached they took off. Spectacular sight to see. Cormorants and HUGE white pelicans. Up until now we had been seeing brown pelicans.

We started hearing this is the vessel Seaquel asking for a slow pass on your port side. At first we were like, wait we’re not asking for a pass. Then we realized it was another Seaquel. He commented that we have a brilliant boat name! I’d have to agree!

Slow and steady wins the race. Mile marker 415. 

Sunset on Awadamaw Creek

It was our last night for now buddy boating with Deb and Keith as they will stay in the area with family through Thanksgiving. We had a delicious farewell feast on our boat. Deb and Keith brought yummy Maine Lobster tails from their trip this summer, fillets and gluten free pnut butter cookies. We contributed crab cakes, stir fry and baked potatoes. Such a nice way to part ways. We will be sure to boat with them in the future. 

Yesterday we had a 30 nautical mile cruise to Charleston. We love to be “on the hook” and were thinking about anchoring right outside the municipal marina. However, there were so many crowd sourced reports of boats that dragged their anchors that we decided to anchor further out, nearby the coast guard station in an anchorage which is about a mile dinghy ride to shore. We have a great dinghy so a mile ride is no problem. 

We departed about 8:30am and were anchored by 1:30pm. Had lunch,  chilled out and then went ashore. We walked to the grocery store. I was thrilled to be walking. Eddie not so much as his back was hurting. 😢 It was in the high 70’s. I was laughing at some of the locals in their heavy sweaters, jackets and boots. 

So many pretty flowers everywhere. We ubered back to the marina with our former Baltimorean Uber driver. Such a small world! 

Speaking of small world. We were in the salon eating lunch and I looked out the window to see September cruising by. They were our neighbors at Lighthouse Point in Baltimore. We hailed them on the radio and reached them but they were trying to reach the marina and were going to get back to us by radio later. We didn’t hear from them and then ran into them at the marina. They are on their way to Stuart where they will leave their boat until after the first of the year. Their destination is the Abacos where their second home was hit very hard. Their cottage was split in half and their main home has nothing but the 4 exterior walls and roof. They will rebuild this year. We will continue to send them prayers and safe travels. 

We had an exciting 2am as a  storm blew through the harbor. High winds and waves. I woke up just as the anchor alarm was going off. Thankfully, the winds were just turning Seaquel and we weren’t dragging our anchor.  Love our Rocna anchor. Held us like a champ. 

The rain is supposed to be over around 9 today and we will dinghy to shore and tour Charleston.