Anchored in Rock Creek
15 November 2007 | Rock Creek, SC
Mike and Kathy
Out of Charleston... November 14th
Leaving Charleston on the ICW there is a restricted bridge that is closed during rush hour. 9:00 am is its first opening of the day which gave us an extra hour or so to waste drinking coffee. Today's trip was almost entirely in marshland, swamp, or low country, depending on where you are from. We traveled various rivers and creeks which were connected by short channels. Even when in one of the wider rivers, we had to constantly keep an eye on the GPS and sounder to stay within the deeper water.
In places there were nice homes with amazingly long docks... 300 to 400 yards, out into the river. Most of the time though we were motoring through what seemed to be one huge marsh. Although there were very few trees, we did see Spanish moss for the first time as well a natural palm trees (Let me interject, I think they're called palmettos). We had the occasional dolphin for company, but so far no alligators.
We stopped for the night at Rock Creek with about five other boats. Rock Creek is about 20 miles from Beaufort, SC and just outside the Ashepoo - Coosaw cut which, at the point where this cut dumps into the Coosaw, there is a shoaling problem. We can only get through by waiting for the tide. Our plan is to attack this spot at about 8:30 as the tide is coming in... that way if we have a problem the rising tide will lift us off.
There is a cold front coming through with forecast winds of 20 to 24 mph...which doesn't even phase us after staying at anchor as hurricane Noel passed at sea.
Kathy here..I am the editor of Mike's writing (and I do miss some things), this seems to be the pattern we have fallen into of late. I just want to say that today was a shorts and t-shirt day and when we got anchored I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in the cockpit, watching the tide go out and listening to the birds. We also had another beautiful sunset.