Hold on there bald eagle!
11 November 2018 | Minim Creek, SC, USA
We awoke in a very still Bull Creek after a super settled night. The Waterways Guide describes this as one of the best anchorages on the ICW, and we’d have to agree. After an 8am start, our route wended its way through forest until the trees finally gave way to marshland, and we reached Georgetown. We tied to the public dock and went ashore there for provisions. Never judge a book by its cover; from the distance it looked pretty industrial with a large paper mill belching away in the background. However, this historical town could not have been nicer, nor the people more friendly. Small – all of eight blocks wide – with large wooden southern houses and a lot of churches, of all denominations. We arrived just after the Armistice Day services and it looked like everyone had been to church and then gone out for lunch. We enjoyed some fine southern hospitality over lunch (including the offer of the loan of a van, by a total stranger) and then went in search of a few meagre provisions. Meagre was what we got, on the basis that everything was shut: we are in the south on a Sunday. Will try again in Charleston.
We carried on in the afternoon for a bit further until we reached Minim Creek and anchored in the marshes. This is a bit like being in the back-waters of the Norfolk Broads. It’s quite remote with nothing around us except a few other ICW boats and some duck hunters zooming about in their camouflage boats.
We have figured out that we need to do about 35 statute miles on average per day (allowing for some days off at key locations) to get to mid Florida by the end of November.
We started seeing bald eagles today – 3 in total. Yeah! Still no alligators though.
Now at Mile 415 – 34 statue miles today