Day 12

We have landed in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.  When I came by car this summer it was a 12 hr. drive.  By boat it took 12 days.  Is there some sort of relationship there?  I don’t know.  Today was bright and sunny with temperatures in the mid 50’s.  For the last couple of days we have been operating the boat from inside, but today was quite nice in the sunshine so we opted to operate the boat from the flybridge.  We still had jackets on, but it was quite comfortable in the sun.

 

We left Carolina Beach State Park Marina right around 8:00 and motored down the Cape Fear River.  Lots of big ships like on the Chesapeake, just in closer quarters.  As we moved farther along the ICW, we began to notice more and more docks and piers that were “deplanked”, broken or in just poor condition.  Others look as if they had just been repaired or are in process of being repaired.  Remnants from hurricane Matthew no doubt.  There are also some very tricky spots where again, the channel has been relocated or become quite narrow in spots as a result of the hurricane.  We happened to hit them just before low tide.  Yippee!  Again, we used our eyes and not the charts to follow the channel and made it through unscathed.  Just keeping it between the navigational beacons as Jimmy Buffet says.  Others were not so lucky.

TowBoat US trying pull this guy off the sandbar.  Don't think he is going anywhere soon. It's not even low tide yet.

We also saw several shrimp/fishing boats that had been tossed on the shore as well.  I don’t know if that was the result of hurricane Matthew as well, or from some other event.  I’ll assume for now it was from the hurricane.

Saw a few like this.

We arrived at Myrtle beach around 2:30 p.m. and got tied up and pumped out.  Our last pump out was in Coinjock about 8 days ago? That’s a long time ago.  We also gave the boat a quick washdown and filled up the water tank as well.  We are now good to go again.  Afterward, we walked up to the restaurant to get a bite to eat and watch some football.  Haven’t seen a game in a while, only to find that the Eagles are on tomorrow night.  Really??  I finally get in front of a TV that I can watch the Eagles play and they aren’t playing? That is just wrong! 

Tomorrow we head for Georgetown S.C. estimated to be another 50 mile day.

Today we traveled 58.3 miles for a total of approximately 580 miles.  It took 7hrs. to get here today from Carolina Beach.

Until Tomorrow, Over and Out.