We ended up staying an extra day in Georgetown as yesterday it rained almost all day. But we headed off bright and early this morning and, it being a weekend day, I spent a lot of time at the helm and we made a long day. We covered some of my most and least favorite parts of the ICW: The Waccamaw River which winds through beautiful forest/cypress swamps, and the unmitigated ditch that passes Myrtle Beach.

As we cruised up the Waccamaw, dodging the occasional logs and other debris washed out by yesterday's rains, I mused that we have returned to the what Leslie has dubbed root beer water. From the dazzlingly blues of the south Florida waters, we have now returned to the swamps and sounds of the mid-coast where the water is...well...the color of root beer.

As for the photo: That is actually a water-level monitoring station, but it sure looks like something else, doesn't it?