North Myrtle Beach and Beyond

 


Don’t panic- it’s not us!  Heading south on the ICW one tends to see more and more abandoned boats - it’s always a sad sight. 

We headed from Southport to Myrtle Beach Yacht Club yesterday - a trip roughly 4.5 hrs long. The trip itself was uneventful, which is how I like them! 




At Myrtle Beach Yacht Club we were able to top off fuel and water. We walked next door to Clark’s for dinner. We had excellent service and enjoyed it calamari and she crab soup - the lava cake wasn’t too shabby, either!


At the entrance to the harbor where MBYC is located, there stands this lighthouse - you can’t miss it!

On the trip today from MBYC to our anchorage (which was supposed to be at butler island but turned out to be in Minim Creek - another story for another day) we learned something very exciting!  I never really knew where buoys came from, or where the go at end of life…today we saw this - it’s a buoy farm!  Apparently they grow buoys in South Carolina!



And then we saw where they go when they’re unable to guide mariners - a buoy retirement village!


All these years on the water and I’m just learning this!

We bypassed the planned anchorage today because it was too early to stop and since we expect rain tomorrow we wanted to shorten that days travel. We are now in Minim Creek instead. Wind still blowing pretty strong (10-12kts?) and current running thru here as well. To get her one must go thru the Estherville Minim Creek Canal…at the beginning of it one encounters the Tom Yawkee Wildlife Center Bridge. Looking this up in active captain provided this info: 


I want to say “Only in South Carolina”, but I’m sure there will be competition in Georgia!

Kathy grabbed a great sunset shot of our anchorage while I put dinner together. 



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