Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 Whiteside Creek anchorage

  We left at 9am to let the tide rise a little.  It was skinny, 7feet, just getting out of Minim Creek into the ICW, and again at Fourmile Creek Canal, where we stayed too far to the green and a sailboat met us under sail at the turn!  And here there were 4 boats southbound in that strong north wind!

  Across from McClellanville we noted where we’d grounded coming up last time (due to our fault—cut the corner and were on the wrong side of the marker).  We came into Whiteside Creek at high tide, which is confusing because there are no indications where the banks are.  Last time we’d come in at low tide and watched the oyster catchers on the banks.  This time we’d see them fly by and hear their ‘ghee, ghee, ghee’ cry, but were sorry Katja and Geoff would not see their bright red bills picking among the oysters.  Two other boats came into the anchorage, one, Subtil, that we’d met at Elizabeth City.