Saturday we woke up to a windy 43 degrees. Bill got up a 6am and started the generator so that we could get some heat going. The ride to the beach for Roxie wasn't terrible, but man that sand was COLD on my bare feet! After getting back to the boat and the dingy back up top, we pulled anchor and started out. I wend down into the galley to make breakfast and while finishing up, there was a horrible sound! Appears as we were traveling in the channel we came upon an inlet from the ocean. The current going out the inlet was so strong, it caught Bill off guard and pulled the boat into a floating channel marker. Yikes!
We made it to Southport without further incident around 4pm, about a 9hr ride. We had reservations at Morningstar Southport Marina....but getting in was a bit of a challenge. Cheers takes 5ft of water and we were coming in at low tide....especially low with the full moon. The marina was showing 4.8ft to the soft mud bottom. We pushed it around like a shovel in the snow. We finally got in and it was worth the trouble. It's a nice marina with a gated dog park and walking distance to several fisheries and restaurants. Fresh seafood!
We had dinner at Provisions.....1/2lb steamed shrimp, crab cake, onion rings and corn of the cob! Delish!
Walk to dinner...
Sunday morning was clear and 55 degrees. Before heading out Roxie and I took a nice long walk while Bill did his engine checks and made breakfast! 
We pulled out of the marina around 9:30 headed to Myrtle Beach. We secured a dock at Myrtle Beach Yacht Club for 2 nights. The weather has been perfect and our stay there was relaxing. We had dinner Monday night at Clarks Seafood and chop house. Bill and I had Firecracker shrimp for an appetizer and shared a delish pan seared halibut dinner.
Tuesday morning 10/22 we departed MBYC and made our way to Georgetown where we anchored after an 8 hour ride. We had anchored here on our way up north in the spring and found it to be a great place to stay with a city boat ramp and the historic area of town just a short ride away. There was also Piggly Wiggly!
We stayed at Georgetown 2 nights and left Thursday morning. We had a great ride, sunny and warm. There were so may different kinds of birds on this leg and were back in dolphin waters! We anchored in Awendaw Creek after a 35 mile run for the night. There is a boat ramp a short ride away for Roxie. We had stayed here on our way up north this spring and there was nothing but water and sea grass as far as the eye could see. Now there is construction...it looks like they are building up the grass land for a future building site.
View from the port side of Cheers
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