Beaufort

Beaufort, SC
N 32 25.226 W 80 39.181

As we traveled north yesterday out of that little maze of twisty passages all alike, I discovered that we could have taken a short cut. Instead of entering the Savannah River, we could have turned north and come behind Hilton Head Island. It would have saved us 20 miles. Oh well. If we had done that, we would not have gotten to see the maze of little twisty passages all alike.

We were passing Parris Island, and I was thinking about the stories I heard about those poor marine recruits undergoing basic training there. Especially the stories about sleeping on the beach among the sand fleas. Anyhow, a call on the radio woke me up from my day dreaming. I heard "Tarwathie". It was our friends Ray and Pat on Reflection calling. They were overtaking us. We last saw them in Vero. What a coincidence.

Now, we're anchored in Factory Creek. We followed Reflection in here. It's nice and pretty, and I'm getting free WIFI from some nearby house. However, there are severe storms coming tonight, and the creek makes me nervous. We have lots of room to swing up/down the creek, but limited room across the creek . I don't know which way the wind will blow. It makes me nervous.

Our own anchor fished up an abandoned anchor and chain from the creek bottom yesterday. It took me about 3 hours to get the crusted salt, lime and oyster shells off the anchor , but now the deed is done. My new anchor is a top of the line Danforth TII-2500, considerably better than our existing Danforth 22S anchor. It was well worth the trouble.