Nov 15th We departed from Georgetown, finally, at 7 am. We are now anchored in Whiting Creek across from Capers State Park, 3/4 of a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, at mile 451 on the ICW. We are in good company with other boats we've met along the way. We will be in Charleston early tomorrow. We plan to anchor tomorrow and then pick up a marina on Tuesday. We will meet Connie and Joe on Tuesday afternoon and hopefully spend the rest of Tuesday and Wednesday with them seeing Charleston. The weather today was beautiful, sunny and in the 70's. We had no wind, but it was almost a relief after the past 4 days. The ICW passed through the Cape Romain Wildlife Preserve today. We saw many Bald Eagles, white and blue herons, another heron that resembles our Green Heron but larger, and the dolphins were around us all day. They know of I love them. I just can't get a picture of them -they are too fast. However, I continue to be challenged. Bill contends he saw an allegator next to Allegator Creek. I missed it. The water along the ICW today was very shallow and commanded constant attention at the helm. That's my excuse for missing the allegator. I send you all thoughts of sunshine, beautiful scenery and temps in the 70's. May tomorrow be a repeat.

Nov 16th. We've been on our trip for 2 months now. The day is again beautiful and sunny. We traveled the ICW where the piers are very long from the homes in order to cross the marshland to the water, and everyone hauls their boats out of the water because of the constant wake from boats traveling the ICW. Everyone with a home along the ICW has a pier and at least one boat. Again today the dolphins played around us as we sailed. We are always trying to make the bridges that only go up on the hour. We just made it today. This bridge was the railroad swing bridge that was scheduled to close on the 11th of November and they pushed the date forward to the end of November. We are in Charleston Harbor tonight at Charleston City Marina. We decided to come into the marina because the fresh water system pump decided to quit last night, which necessitated a visit to West Marine today. Bill is trying to get the new pump installed now. We'll stay here to visit with Connie & Joe tomorrow and maybe Wednesday. We are definitely feeling like we have made the South now.