Day 12, March 8 Welcome to S Carolina!

We weighed anchor at about 6:30 AM. We were rewarded with a beautiful sunrise and light seas. 

Doboy Inlet sunrise

We decided to go off shore at Doboy Inlet.  The channel out was a long one and a bit choppy going against the waves, which is normal. Bella lost her sea legs and tossed her breakfast just as we exited channel. She does that when we go offshore at Edisto in the Grady also. 

As soon as we turned northward, the seas became much calmer. Rosie was fine but deemed it to be a "stay up on the fly bridge day"! We traveled north along Blackbeard Island and the Georgia barrier islands, Savannah, Hilton Head etc in about 25 to 40 feet of water and in about 2 to 4 foot seas with some pretty good swells here. 🤢  But overall, it was much calmer than it has been for the last week. 

There were whale sightings a few days ago here, so we are on the lookout. No whale sightings for us but I did see a large black tip shark! It surfaced 3 times and I got a good look at it twice. Then at the end of the Port Royal entrance channel, which is 10 miles long, we noticed an interesting ship that had stopped there. A bit later, we heard the coast guard talking to them and found out that they are a Great White shark  research vessel. A bit later, they had caught a Tiger shark and called the Coasties back to see if they wanted to come see, which they did. So, what did I learn here? LOTS and LOTS of sharks in this area!

Once we got into Port Royal Sound, both Bella and Rosie felt MUCH better🤢🤢🤢. 

We plan on fueling in Beaufort in the morning to satisfy the "moving the boat out of Florida"  issue with sales tax and hope to be home on the Toogoodoo tomorrow night! 

Beaufort River

Marine Basic Training Base, Parris Island... (we checked the reviews on Google... 3 Month All Inclusive Vacation!)

We anchored just across from the Port Royal Landing Marina and yes, we are in the Lowcountry! The gnats are here!  But we were welcomed back with a beautiful Beaufort sunset!

 Because we were able to go offshore today, we cut an extra day off the trip. We had hoped to do more offshore days but the weather didn't cooperate for that. We at least did get one each on the Atlantic side and the Gulf side.

A record set for miles and hours

Miles traveled today: 92

Total so far: 687.50