Calabash

Calabash Creek, NC/SC border
N 33 52.376 W 078 34.198

Well, I told some people that we would skip South Carolina and Georgia on this trip south. Now reality is making a liar of me. We are anchored with our stern in North Carolina and the bow in South Carolina. The location is on Calabash Creek, near the Little River Inlet.

We had an easy day today moving down the ICW with a little bit of sail but mostly by motor. Starting in the afternoon, a series of thunderstorms passed by. We dodged two of them but we got rained on by one. It wasn't a severe storm though, and the rain felt good.

This was our first time along this stretch of the ICW. I must say that it's not very pretty. There are far too many houses lining both shores. I don't understand the people who pay so much money for these places. True they are on the waterfront, but they are packed in to very high density living, and they wipe out any trace of nature. The only good thing about it is that summer season is over and all the hundreds of jet skis we saw at the docks were sitting unused. I would hate to travel by
there on a holiday like July 4.

Our plan is to go to sea in the morning from the Little River Inlet and head south. The winds are forecast for SE and our course is SW, so it should work well. We'll also have four days in a row with these numerous showers. If things work well, we'll put in to Cumberland Island GA. That's a national wilderness area, and we heard that it's really nice.

After anchoring tonight, I looked at the boat next to us. It is Aruba II. Wow! That's the boat of our friend Andre. We first met Andre in Jacksonville, then we bumped in to him in Elizabeth City, then again a year later in the Great Dismal Swamp. Counting tonight, this is the fourth time we met Aruba II. The only trouble was that Andre was not in sight. A strange man wa on board. I called Andre on his cell phone to ask if his boat was stolen. He said no; his friend Roy is delivering the boat
to Florida for Andre. So after finishing the call to Andre I shouted out to the nearby boat, "HELLO ROY." Boy that surprised Roy. Good prank.