The Great Loop

Charleston to Cape Fear

 

4/29/05- We explored a little of Charleston SC then headed north toward Norfolk passing Cape Fear. We elected to stay on the ICW due to a series of storms and Ruth's back.

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Charleston SC MegaDock

The world's logest flating fuel dock!

NNYC flag at Charleston

Burgee flys over the MegaDock.

Slip space for...

The carrier dwarfs the boats in the marina.

Ft Sumter

The only Scott present was yours truly. BSH

Passing Ariel

We traveled several days with Ariel.

Jungle Tour

A ICW local tour boat.

Tiki Bar?

Okayyyyy

Georgetown IP Mill

The presence of paper was evident along the southern ICW.

Myrtle Beach House

Beach house? I think not.

Below Barefoot

The new consturction is mind boggling by Myrtle Beach.

Whaat?

Red pierate ship, tour boat from Barefoot Landing.

Barefoot Landing

Free dockage at a shopping center stacks the cruisers up.

John joins us.

John of Owl rafted off us and Ariel and Snails Pace at Barefoot.

Barefoot shopping

The shopping center was quaint and handy.

Barefoot turtle

Aren't they all?

Looking out

Barefoot had a live tiger exhibit.

Stay kitty

I never realized how big they were.

Chomp

These cats were enormous.

Ruth 'n Lobster

We'll leave it at that.

Beautiful danger

North of Barefoot the channel was rocky for about 10 miles.

Snack time

Buddy enjoys a snack on his swing.

Wrightsville SC anchorage

Just off the ICW, a great place to stop.

Cruising watershow

A sailing family puts on a watershow.

How long did you wait?

The bridgetender at WB didn't see us, didn't answer the radio and didn't open for another half hour.

Cypress knees

The trees, not us.

Island goats

Several ICW spoil islands are populated with goats.

ICW architecture

The sttilts elevate them above hurricane flooding.

Light keeper

Osprey keeps the light on.

Baby shrimper

Here's how they catch those little shrimp.

Pontoon Bridge

Kinda cute, the center of the bridge is on a barge.

All sizes

The boats traveling the ICW range form 20' to over 200.

Pipe dream

A dredge moves along the ICW trailing a mile of floating pipe.

 

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