The day, another beautiful but cold day, is dedicated to my nephew Jack Snyder

 

Happy Birthday, Young Man !!1

I thought about you much today, watching your games as a star baseball and basketball player!

You're in school.  I'm not.

Here ya go Jackster - Will see you soon !!

 

Beginning the cut from Georgetown, SC south

towards Charleston, SC

Another great mobile duck blind !

Channel 16 reported a sinking 45' boat in the Atlantic

Ocean right outside the ICW.  Coast Guard responded

with Tow Boat US.  Leak fixed by owners.

All are okay.

Over 1000 feet of dock.

What would be the cost?

Captain Lynn !!

"Godspeed" from Baltimore !

We past them and then they followed.

Yo monster!

Three tugs delivering/controlling a dredging

barge and sand drogues on their way to find

another spot along the ICW to make slightly deeper.

We found an excellent spot to drop the hook only

5 miles north of Charleston.  On the way in we saw

 numerous dolphin feeding on the fish on the

outgoing tide.  It was time for a research expedition.

Lynn found the first of a pod of dolphin gorging

themselves on the feast.

  

They popped up all around us.  Two of them came

up just 4 or 5 feet from Zippy.  They looked us right

in the eyes as they glided past us.  One went right

under the dinghy coming right up on the other side

giving us a smile on the ride by.  Wow, goose bumps

abound.  They were just everywhere.

 

Looks like a dad schooling the fish around the pups.

 

A golden shot of another dolphin right before sunset. 

Oh, and the fowl!

Out to, and in, the Atlantic Ocean

Smokin' at 20 knots.

We're finally movin' !!

Really moving!

 

Checking out Storymaker at anchor.

One of the real challenges on the trip is setting,

and retrieving, the anchor in 3 to 4 knots of current,

something we really don't see on the Chesapeake Bay.

The sunset comes bringing another gorgeous

day to an end !

The end of the day is here.

 

Well, woo, woo, woo.

Quite the day.  I think we have one more day of this cold stuff and then we're gettin'

warm.  But in the mean time, a very relaxing cruise meandering down the wide, open

canals, and not having to worry too much about shoals.

A 50 mile journey today brought us only 5 miles north of Charleston, SC.

We found just the most outstanding little gunkhole in 12 feet of water right

smack down in the feeding feast of a bunch of Flippers.

We saw them on our way in to our anchorage.  We immediately

dropped the hook and got Zippy down from the davits.

We raced over to the frenzy and rode with them a while watching

them peek up close to the dinghy and then back down into the depths

to catch spot and other delicacies.

We then ran out to the Atlantic Ocean and found some pretty low depths.

We nosed around and then made our way back to Storymaker for a

premium Happy Hour celebrating our luck with the dolphins.