Vessel Name: | VTwin |
Vessel Make/Model: | Victory 35 |
Hailing Port: | Detroit |
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Just tied up after 31 hours of travel, most of it in sloppy conditions in the Atlantic. Time for a beer and a nap!
We have left the inlet near Savannah and are hoping to make it to St Augustine by tomorrow night.
As we were motoring along, Chuck asks, is that a leaf on the dinghy engine? No, it was a little green snake. It stayed for awhile and slithered around on the engine, but when it started making a move toward getting in the dinghy, Chuck got a boat hook, and it went for a swim.
There are many effects of a hurricane, and we have seen many of them lately thanks to Florence - broken docks, sunken boats, businesses closed due to flood damage, but one of the effects that we observed that is seen in the vegetation itself, is the dark line along the trees and bushes that marks the storm surge. Yesterday we were traveling along the Waccamaw River, and the line was clearly evident for miles. This one was originally made by Matthew 2 years ago, and any vegetation that had regrown was drowned again by Florence.
We are at Osprey Marina by Myrtle Beach, SC. It’s a great protected reasonably priced place to stay, so we’ve stopped to change the oil in the engine and the generator, fill water, get diesel and gas, plugin to shore power so we can have heat, and to get off the boat for awhile. We met some other boaters up in the lounge, and went for a walk. We walked up to see the goats in the nearby field. Upon seeing us, they all immediately trotted over to greet us. They were quite interested until they realized we had no food, and then turned tail and walked off while making rude noises.
Is the cooler half full, or half empty? This year in the Bahamas was marked by lots of water - from the sky that is. In the 2 months we were there we only bought 10 gallons of drinking water. The rest we caught with our high tech catchment system shown in the picture - our trusty Igloo cooler that we [...]
This is a National Park. There was a law enforcement picnic while we were there with many boats and a helicopter arriving from multiple agencies.
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Created 20 February 2017
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