South Santee

Cool night at Thoroughfare Creek, 40 degrees in the morning.  I get up and turn on our "Little Buddy" heater. We sleep in and have a leisurely breakfast, pancakes. Since we have lots of rain in the forecast, two days away, we decide to move on to make it to Isle of Palms, near Charleston, before the bad weather. We leave around 11:30. Being in a sandy area the anchor comes up clean and we get moving fast. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes or more to get the anchor chain clean of mud.

A cool day with some sun, but with the wind on our back we are fairly warm in the cockpit. We drop anchor in one of our favorite places the South Santee River. Very remote area surrounded by old rice growing areas. There is one trawler there ahead of us, interestingly he is anchored exactly on the spot we anchored last time we were here. 

 

Panorama of the South Santee River