Monday Nov 7th, 2011 New River, SC anchorage

  We’d decided to leave late, 10am, to get some help with the current down the Beaufort River and still have good tide most of the way.  It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny, and going around Hilton Head seeing a beautiful beach and impressive homes was nice.  A large cruise boat was coming into the Sound.  Then on past Daufuskie Island (gullah for ‘the first key’), through narrow Ramshorn Creek, around the long shoal and into here, a perfect wide anchorage, with not much protection from wind, just marsh and grass, but very peaceful.

  Later at dusk the cruise boat came through the ICW, so wide, we wondered how it could get through the cuts.  We saw its lights slowly moving over the marshland towards Savannah.  And Savannah’s lights shone in the distance.  Two more boats came into the anchorage, one a solo sailor in a small boat with no dodger or bimini for protection on his way to the Bahamas.