Thursday Dec 4

Thursday Dec 4

We left Osprey Marina today around 9:30 and ran down the river. This part of South Carolina is more like the dismal swamp than the real one. It is miles and miles of wildlife refuge and the trees are bare and the day was grey. The clouds and grey day made it feel colder and we are going to get rain tonight probably.

There weren’t a lot of houses along the river here. This area is called “the low country” and it appears to be mostly swamp...at least that’s all we can see from the river.  We passed the inlet where we

came into the river 10 years ago so now we are in unfamiliar territory.  But it seems that we probably will wish we had gone outside. There doesn’t appear to be any towns between here and Charleston which is two days away. We are at Mile 415 and Charleston is at Mile 460. We will be anchoring in the channel for the next two nights. But we have all the supplies we need.

Tomorrow we will up anchor early and get as close to Charleston as we can without anchoring in the dark!