Foiled

Thoroughfare Creek, SC
N 33 30.735 W 079 08.747

I must be spoiled because I don't like having my plans foiled. (Come to think of it, that may be why I did well as a project manager.) I had planned on going to sea today, but the weather didn't turn out as expected. Therefore, we spent yet another day motoring down the ICW. Worse, now it looks like the winds won't shift until Saturday afternoon. Darn, I don't like having my plans foiled.

I know that many of my blogs sound like travel agency propaganda. We just go from one beautiful and fun spot to another and another. This is an exception. The ICW between Southport, NC, down through Myrtle Beach is ugly and unappealing. However, we're now past all of that, and in the midst of nature along the Waccamaw River. From here all the way out to the Wynah Bay Inlet, is nothing but nature.

We may just sit here at anchor until Saturday, or we may continue down the ICW. Last year we came in at Wnyah Bay to dodge a gale. As I remember it, the ICW was very nice until one gets within a few miles of Charlston, then it gets ugly again. Time will tell.

The power of Skipper Bob is amazing. We found this anchorage on Thoroughfare Creek in our copy of Skipper Bob's "Anchorages Along the Intracoastal Waterway." It is really remote and out of the way, and I didn't expect to find anyone. I was wrong. Skipper Bob's directions take us up the creeks and end with "anchor by the white sand bank." When we got here, we saw another boat anchored within 10 feet of the white sand bank.

There is a curiosity behind us. A section of the cypress swamp has been dredged to make a series of water streets. You know, like the ones in Fort. Lauderdale or Marco Island. They even appear on the nautical chart. However, there are no houses on any of the water streets. There is not even a road anywhere near that would lead to the development. It must have been someone's business dream that died.