We had another quiet night at anchor in the South Santee River. The big black flies shooed us inside for dinner but that was ok.
Today, we only have about 17 miles to travel to Georgetown so we had an easy morning, cooked a big breakfast, finished grooming Bella, got an accurate measurement of our davit height for bridge clearance (20’ and we scrape the bridge, 28’ if the antennae are up), did yoga and then just as we were ready to start engines, it stormed, with all the side affects. The rain stopped and we weighed anchor at 12:30 on a rising tide, just as planned.
Again, we cruised along on a favorable tide speeding us up a bit. We arrived in the channel going into Georgetown in less than 2 hours BUT the sky got dark again and here it came, for about 1 1 /2 hours. Rain and thunder. This is our 1st time to approach Georgetown by boat, so not being familiar with the entrance but knowing that there are boats everywhere in the harbor, we decided to make circles out in the open water way and wait out the rain. 1 1/2 hours of slow circles and the sky turned blue again.
We found an anchorage at the end of the harbor walk area past the mooring field close to the old steel mill, an easy dinghy ride in. Bella is eyeing that grass though we have to say that she is dealing with "spot" perfectly.
Ah, the historic old Georgetown clock is dinging 5 o'clock.
Georgetown Harbor at night...
Our anchorage for the night
MM: 403
Miles traveled today: 17 + circles
Total: 92 +
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