SUMMER BREEZE: Winter Cruising Day 2

January 22, 2018

What a beautiful sunrise! Looks like it might be a painting...

We pulled up anchor at 8 AM. It was a calm and brisk morning. The marsh is beautiful in the morning light with dolphins everywhere. It is a rising tide at about mid range and we needed to follow the same path out of the creek because of the sandbar. We exited with lots of water under our keel by positioning ourselves parallel to the dock at about mid creek and pointing the bow just to the right of the Seabrook water tower. (These notes are for our future reference as this is a great anchorage.)

This is the view leaving N Edisto as we passed Botany Bay Island.

We were out of the N Edisto River channel by 9:20 and heading NE towards Charleston harbor, passing Seabrook, Kiawah, and Folly Islands. We could see both the Morris Island lighthouse and the Sullivan Island Lighthouse.

The weather was projected to be a high of 70 today inland but it is definitely cooler out here on the water!

We entered the jetty channel between Green 16 and 17 markers, a 3 hour offshore trip. This is our 1st time in the Charleston channel with Summer Breeze and we were immediately faced with sharing the channel with Allie B and a barge but had plenty of room to spare.

We passed Sumter Fort and the harbor was beautiful and very calm.

View of Charleston waterfront and the bridge

Wappoo Creek and Elliot Cut had a raging current which kept us watching the rocks.

With the approaching storm tonight, we hope to be anchored where it will affect us the least. Most of the anchorages along the ICW don’t seem ideal to weather out a storm so we kept moving on towards Church Creek. We have spent a couple of nights there and know that it is a good anchorage and safe harbor.

We actually got to Church Creek sooner than we expected. We had slowed down through Wappoo Creek and Elliot Cut but made great time the rest of the day. It got quite warm as well, enough to take off the jackets and sweatshirts!

Here at Church Creek, we went around a couple of the bends in order to be protected from any winds that may come from tonight's storm front. We will hang here tomorrow until the front passes and then decide about the next day.