Beaufort SC
21 November 2020 | Beaufort SC Mooring Field
Mike
November 21, 2020 Saturday
We slept in and after pulling the anchor we only had a short motor of a couple of hours to get to the Lady Isle Swing Bridge and then the mooring field in Beaufort. We loaded a bike into the dinghy and on the way to shore we stopped by a Morgan 44 sailboat called Luckiest that had picked up the mooring next to us. We talked for a while with Hal and Barbara about their plans and adventures while we stayed in our dinghy to keep social distance. We exchanged boat cards and I lost theirs shortly thereafter.
We went ashore and Sharon rode to the grocery store for some items for our very small Thanksgiving Dinner and I went to a nearby restaurant called Panini’s and had a beer and waited for Sharon to return. When she returned, we shared a small pizza and as it was getting late, we decided to wait until tomorrow to take showers at the marina.
Back on board I baked sweet potatoes on the grill and while the potatoes baked the crew from Luckiest came by to return the boat card I lost in town, (someone recognized their picture on the card and gave it back to them) so we had a good laugh about that. We talked for a while and enjoyed the part we miss about cruising in a pandemic, the social contact that went on freely before the country got sick. Cases of the virus are skyrocketing all over the country and everyone is worried about what the flu season will bring. A full shutdown is possible again of all non-essential business if the situation continues to worsen.