Thursday, April 15, 2021.
Weather: Temp: 75/64, Humidity: 90/47%, Top Wind: W12 mph, Precip: sprinkles, Miles Traveled: 27
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This was a nice short day without any shallow crazy tidal or current concerns. YAY! We weren’t in a big hurry, so I took my quick walk to the seafood shop, then we cast off lines about 9:00. It was a comfortable temperature outside, but once we got underway, the wind was on our tail and it was plenty warm and humid feeling without any breeze that we could feel.
Here is a typical scene for today…. grassy lowlands, again.
I tried really hard to earn my bug-swatter merit badge today. We had big flies buzzing us all day. I don’t know if they were biters or stingers, and didn’t want to find out. So I got out my trusty fly smacker and smacked a bunch of them. We’ll probably be finding dead bodies for awhile.
This wooden tower reminded me of the old TV show called F-Troop. (Showing my age, I know.). It’s probably a fire-watch tower, I suppose, but it just looked out of place out here in the grasslands.
This was interesting. It was called a pontoon bridge on the navigation map. As we went by, it looked like it was just a flat barge with a pilot house and engine that motors itself around. I don’t know if it is long enough to connect the entire span from side to side, or if it has to act like a ferry.
There was quite a stretch of land that had burned underbrush and new bright green grass growth. We could see that the very bottom of the trees were charred. Interesting and lucky that the trees didn’t completely burn, but it really made me wonder WHY the flames didn’t climb up the trees.🤔
After just 3 hours, we found the channel into Georgetown harbor.
We got Island Girl all settled in. We had wind on our tail all day, so when we came in here and had to turn, we had surprisingly strong wind on our side, so we just docked bow in, since it was a nice long 50’ slip. And would you look at that – she already has her chocolate moostache again! 🥴
We went for a stroll through town (it is not very big), and along the boardwalk. We were looking for a specific restaurant for lunch, and we would recognize it when we saw it. Ta-Da! The Big Tuna!
We were seated inside, ordered grouper sandwiches and a bowl of she-crab-soup. This is where Kenny first tasted it and loved it three years ago. And yes- it lived up to his memory. This one was a soup consistency, and he loved it. I like chunky soup, so I preferred the chowder-like one we had a week or two ago…. where ever we were?
This is the interior of The Big Tuna. It’s a neat old rustic place with a fairly limited menu, but the food was really good.
Here is outside and the boardwalk. It was getting pretty dark out, and it did actually sprinkle a bit while we were inside.
This is just some of the buildings in town. It is a historic town with all local shops, no national chains here in town!
This was cute – a plain wall that has been painted to look like storefronts!
We wandered into a bakery and found that they had cinnamon rolls, cookies, brownies, cupcakes, etc. We got a couple of cinnamon rolls and two brownies to go.
It was still sprinkling rain, so we went back to the boat for awhile and I looked at the weather and near future plans. After a few hours, we headed out to Buzz’s Roost, which is actually the home of Winyah Brewing. This was the walkway along the side of the building… I don’t know why there is this long wooden walkway. 🤷♀️
I know you can’t read this, but Winyah Bay Brewing had ten or so of their own beers, and then several guest taps.
There was a sign on the wall for Thursday special – $3 for select taps. We asked which taps, but the fill-in bartender never found out for us. So we ordered a few things and were shocked when we got the bill. The Winyah beer was $3.00, and the guest tap bourbon barrel imperial stout was only $3.50! WOW!!
Here is their little batch brewery.
It says that they only brew 55 gallons at a time, and a total of 3300 gallons in 2020.
From there we pulled into the Creamery and got a couple of scoops of ice cream to go with our brownies for dessert. We figure we supported four different local food establishments while we were here for a few hours. 😁
The clock tower is town is a neat building. It was built in 1845, and the first floor was an open air market for years.
The sign says that the town council actually surrendered the town of Georgetown to the officers of the U.S. Navy in 1865.
The sunset was fiery red below the billowy clouds. Notice on the left are smoke stacks. Those belong to International Paper; the odor and steam was blowing our way all day. Yep – the smell of money. HA! You see, I worked for Weyerhaeuser Company for over thirty years, and I know the smell of a pulp/paper mill very well. And it doesn’t bother me at all.
Here are our brownie sundaes! I couldn’t even eat my whole one, but they were sooooo good! We haven’t had ice cream for a long time. Yumm! 😋
Tomorrow we have lots of miles to travel, but fortunately no serious shallow, tide, or current issues to be overly concerned with. There is rain and wind forecasted for Saturday (day after tomorrow), so we decided to go sixty miles to the north end of Myrtle Beach, and stay two nights. We’d rather not travel on a crummy weather day… and we shouldn’t have to, right? 😁