Lots of current as we left at 6:00AM and then the fun began. Everyone with a boat decided to make Sunday the day to go out. It was like being swarmed with gnats - everyone zipping in and out, particularly annoying when you are waiting for a bridge opening. Made it to Wrightsville Beach to a nice anchorage. Dinghied into town which was also swarming with teeny-boppers strutting their stuff in bikinis (most of them shouldn't have) and surfer dudes because it was so rad, dude. Some fun.
One of the cool things you meet on the ICW is an approaching barge thankfully we met this one at a wide spot.
Next day it was more ICW to Barefoot Landings Marina in North Myrtle Beach - basically just a long dock along the water. Spent oodles of money getting new water pump, stereo and $65 cab ride to pick up $500 worth of 6V batteries. Doesn't get much better than that!
As we were getting ready to leave the next morning I looked over the stern to see what was a log drifting upstream - not exactly. A 5-6 foot alligator giving me the eyeball - you want to go for a swim?
And a bit further on we see an aerial tramway going across the ICW - this is to take golfers to the course on the other side of the water - who would have thought of that?
Then down the Wacama river - hot day - and surrounded by vicious horse flies. We killed enough of them to fill up a dust pan. Stopped for the night at Leland Oil Company docks in McClennanville - nice town inhabited by fishermen and their boats and mosquitos.
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