We’re close enough to Charleston that we’re slowing down to finally do some of that cruising and exploring I’ve been talking about for the past 3000+ miles.
We woke up yesterday in this creek:
The day started with a dinghy ride down to the extensive beach of the Cape Romaine Wildlife Refuge. Incredible walk and I forgot to bring my camera. It was easily the longest expanse of beach any of us have seen that is almost totally untouched by any sign of human activity.
We then ran about seven miles down to the creek that runs out past the end of the Isle of Palms. The holding was poor and the presence of the gated community with all its “99%’ers Keep Out” signs slightly oppressive so we moved across the waterway into the marsh channels where a mother dolphin and a baby were playing as we turned one of the channel corners.
The marshes are a sea of grass:
There is even a horizon of grass.
The view across the waterway to the islands created by dredging the canal:
It’s amazing, thinking of how much attention we pay to keeping in the channel, to contemplate routinely guiding one of these along the same route:
The first thing I saw this morning as I looked sleepily out of the head porthole was a dolphin swimming by. The sunrise a few minutes later:
We’ll be departing soon for the 2-3 hour run down to Charleston.
We woke up yesterday in this creek:
The day started with a dinghy ride down to the extensive beach of the Cape Romaine Wildlife Refuge. Incredible walk and I forgot to bring my camera. It was easily the longest expanse of beach any of us have seen that is almost totally untouched by any sign of human activity.
We then ran about seven miles down to the creek that runs out past the end of the Isle of Palms. The holding was poor and the presence of the gated community with all its “99%’ers Keep Out” signs slightly oppressive so we moved across the waterway into the marsh channels where a mother dolphin and a baby were playing as we turned one of the channel corners.
The marshes are a sea of grass:
There is even a horizon of grass.
The view across the waterway to the islands created by dredging the canal:
It’s amazing, thinking of how much attention we pay to keeping in the channel, to contemplate routinely guiding one of these along the same route:
The first thing I saw this morning as I looked sleepily out of the head porthole was a dolphin swimming by. The sunrise a few minutes later:
We’ll be departing soon for the 2-3 hour run down to Charleston.
