March 13-14, Dafuskie Island

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Saturday March 13

Today, we enjoy a lazy morning without any boat repairs!  After 2 days of travel we are ready to stay here and go to the island for a long walk and an early dinner at Dafuskie Crab Company. Being a Saturday and a nice weekend there were tons of boats out! TONS just coming out from the marsh. Really!

Plan B went into affect as the dock (a small marina) was packed, actually triple packed in most places with many boats hovering in the area waiting for a spot. We couldn’t even get a spot for the dinghy and the thought of a Covid fest didn't sit well with us. 

Burger, anyone? Not Plan B

Plan B: we went around the island to the Dafuskie County Dock hoping to just go for a walk. It is a much smaller dock but it was full too. Plan C is cook at home again! 

There are 5 boats in Bull Creek for the night, one being a DeFever 49, River Girl. We dinghied over and met Jeremy Hatch and Charlene Young. They live at Hilton Head so they are out for a short trip.  

A couple of days ago we also met Steve and Patti McCreary on their DeFever 52, Last Laugh at Ladies Island Marina. It seems that we are having a DeFever Rendezvous on the ICW!

Summer Breeze with 2 of the fellow creek mates. 

Tomorrow we will try to meet up with old friends Tom and Robin Bessent, whom are new residents of the island, as of this weekend! We will see if that works out as they are bringing their final load of “stuff” and moving onto the island. We are still figuring out logistics which are changing after today’s events. Hopefully the boat traffic won’t be as bad tomorrow.

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Sunday, March 14

By special permission as guests, we were able to take our dinghy over to Haig Point to meet up with our friends. We took an early afternoon trial run there and had a nice walk around the beautiful grounds. 

This is at the private ferry dock and even though it is not near as busy as yesterday there is still some wave action from the ICW and barnacles were just daring us so we used our life jackets as fenders.

Haig Point Lighthouse 

We came back later and met Tom and Robin for dinner. It’s Sunday fried chicken day on the island! 

Jasmine did great as the weekend boat traffic died down and it was a beautiful drive back to Summer Breeze in the dark (thankfully)! 

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