It had rained solidly during the night - no thunder or high winds just soft, endless drizzle.

Rainwater is jfantastic for soft hair and when it rains I often put out a large container to collect the water and use it for hair washing.

We left early and travelled via some of the prettiest countryside imaginable. At times we managed to raise the sail but the wind was not consistent and although we had a little sunshine it wasn't long before another belt of rain came through.

We navigate the dreaded Pine Island Cut within which there is an extremely narrow 3-mile section called the rock pile - this the channel has been blasted through the coquina and apart from rocks below the boat there are jagged areas that protrude underwater from the sides of the channel. Alexia draws 5.5ft and at times the the depth dropped to just 6ft. We go slowly.

By late afternoon the weather has cleared and when we reached our anchorage in the Waccamaw River SC we were in for a treat.

It was a perfect sundown accompanied by birdsong, croaking frogs, wading birds and still water with mirror-like reflections for mile after mile. This picture was taken off the bow of Alexia.