Hi, Angel Louise is at North Myrtle Beach going north on the ICW. We left Charleston late on Wednesday morning heading for North Carolina. This morning we sit in a new 'resort marina' at Barefoot Landing South Carolina. It is on the West Bank of the ICW directly opposite what used to be the free docks at a large discount and vacation mall (they now charge $1.50 a foot.) We took the dinghy over across the ICW and they charged us $5 to just tie up there for happy hour.
Since the Resort's Marina & 'Yacht Club' charges $1.50 a foot - there is no reason not to stay here where we are sheltered from ICW wakes and currents. Plus we have a beautiful pool that was said to be the largest in South Carolina?? Yesterday we went through pure beauty. It started from an anchorage on North Santee River (which friends receiving emails see pictured on the MAC ENC chartplotter picture below). After a beautiful sunrise over the marsh, we started up a creek named Estherville Creek toward the bay and ultimately the Waccama River. While on creek, just north of the 415 mile marker we saw an alligator. It was just about 7 am when I saw looking down the straight channel what appeared to be a small snag of some foilage ahead. When I got there, it had eyes and a nose and was the head of a small crock! I summoned everyone from in the cabin where breakfast was being served and had our camera fetched, and include a picture of the him. He was swimming to the shore as we went out of sight. We don't hame many pictures of the cut that goes through Myrtle Beach to the north. Its a high walled ditch blasted out of stone by the Corps of Engineers in the 30s, and though there are some fabulous homes, the sides are too high to see much alongside where there are around 50 golf clubs. Our marina is near a Pete Dye designed course. Attached at the bottom are pictures for those who are receiving our regular emails & pictures with descriptions as we cruise north on the ICW. We owe much to Hayden & Raydeen Cochran whose super blog and Google Maps give us inspiration and a head's up as we travel north. http://islandspirit35.blogspot.com/ Hayden's web based voluntary effort has MULTIPLE MAPS AND PICTURES and has much influence on our planning and (thanks to a Verizon USB Modem) we sometimes pull it up underway. We have have used his web blog and google maps for planning and found them super. We do not praise his work idly. I am an enthusiast and we have 3 chartplotters aboard: MAC ENC w/ free govt computer ENC & raster charts; Raymarine E-80 and Navionics Platinum charts; Raytheon RL80C Pathfinder with Navionics chips. We also have multiple paper charts due to my past WM employment, and count among our favorite charts: Managing the Waterway, Chartracker to the ICW Waterway, The Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook. Here is where Angel Louise started and ended Thursday May 8th: N. Santee Anchorage: http://maps.google.com/maps? f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=33.1713,-79.2925&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1 Barefoot Landing Resort Marina (& condo sales tool)(Google picture shows pool and condo but not the Yacht club marina as it was built after the google picture: http://maps.google.com/maps? f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=33.8018,-78.7471&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1 Sue & I wish you a GREAT DAY! Ed Kelly (& Sue Kelly) USSV Angel Louise - tied up at Barefoot Landing Resort Yacht Club Our Skype Phone (202) 657-6357 Email: EdKelly ("at" symbol) netins.net 5 pictures attached: IMG_1494.JPG pictured is the map from the MAC ENC of the area around Winyah Bay and our anchorage on the North Santee River next to Minim Island. --o0o-- IMG_1495.JPG Our sunrise Thursday over the Santee Swamp (a marsh just has grasses, a swamp has trees too, otherwise they are the similar) --o0o-- IMG_1499.JPG An Alligator in the ICW! This guy pictured swimming for shore just North of the ICW 415 mile marker. I originally changed the autopilot 1 degree to starboard to avoid what I though was a clump of grass and roots floating toward me as we went north. When we were approaching close I could not believe my eyes the clump was eyes and a snout passing down the port side. I got the camera and snapped a couple blindly in hopes of capturing him on zoom as he was a ways behind us. He came up in two of the pictures. What a sight. I have not seen any other crocks in the wild from GA North! --o0o-- IMG_1505.JPG A ferry crossing that goes over the creek to get traffic from one side to the other via a small ferry south of Georgetown on the ICW. I think this is a cable ferry. --o0o-- IMG_1519.JPG Between Georgetown and the approaches to Myrtle Beach are great views of nature. Eagles, osprey, and all the variety one could hope for: here a mangrove tree used as a sign post for a sign advertising a marina. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
