4/18/11 - 4/20/11 We spent two more days and nights working our way through the South Carolina wetlands. They are beautiful and isolated. We saw very little civilization with the exception of the occasional fisherman. One evening we had just anchored in Bull Creek when we saw a fellow cruiser going by flying the Canadian flag. After learning by radio that they would be anchoring nearby for the evening we invited them over for happy hour. They tied up alongside the Confetti (known as "rafting up") and we met Tom and Phyllis on board the Cocoon Too. They were on their way back to Canada after spending the winter in the Bahamas. The next morning we headed north and passed into North Carolina. The countryside is changing more to tall trees on the shoreline but still buggy. We spent the night anchored in Shallotte Inlet, NC., a very tight anchorage with shallow water all around. Even with two anchors set, I was up on deck several times during the night checking them and in the morning one of them was set so hard that I damaged the anchor roller on the bow getting it out of the mud. We headed up the Cape Fear river to the town of Wilmington and tied up at the city dock. The next morning we took the tour bus to see the local architecture and ate lunch at the microbrewery (two buck draft).
6.5.11
4/18/11 - 4/20/11 We spent two more days and nights working our way through the South Carolina wetlands. They are beautiful and isolated. We saw very little civilization with the exception of the occasional fisherman. One evening we had just anchored in Bull Creek when we saw a fellow cruiser going by flying the Canadian flag. After learning by radio that they would be anchoring nearby for the evening we invited them over for happy hour. They tied up alongside the Confetti (known as "rafting up") and we met Tom and Phyllis on board the Cocoon Too. They were on their way back to Canada after spending the winter in the Bahamas. The next morning we headed north and passed into North Carolina. The countryside is changing more to tall trees on the shoreline but still buggy. We spent the night anchored in Shallotte Inlet, NC., a very tight anchorage with shallow water all around. Even with two anchors set, I was up on deck several times during the night checking them and in the morning one of them was set so hard that I damaged the anchor roller on the bow getting it out of the mud. We headed up the Cape Fear river to the town of Wilmington and tied up at the city dock. The next morning we took the tour bus to see the local architecture and ate lunch at the microbrewery (two buck draft).
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