Charleston, SC to Georgetown, SC

We are secure in our slip at the Maritime Marina in Charleston harbor with a beautiful sunset and view of the Cooper River Bridge.  This marina is very close to downtown area, and a great deal especially if you stay a week, but you will rock and roll when the big cargo ships go by.  The next day Liberte arrived in Charleston so let the fun began.  We enjoyed exploring Charleston on our bikes seeing the beautiful homes and streets, churches,  and a stop for some adult ice pops!
The Bridge was beautiful every night and finally for mothers day we decided to bike the bridge over and back.  This resulted in a beer of course, and learning that our grand baby would be al little girl.  After getting back to Journey, we decided with Mark and Cheryl from Liberte that we should have a dive bar tour.  Recovery room was our second stop and here are a few shots, but overall it was a great night of fun, laughs, drinks, and greasy food.  Before heading out Dee and I enjoyed an evening at a rooftop bar to celebrate our anniversary. 
We head out of Charleston Harbor and see the sights one more time as we enter the ICW and head toward Geogetown.  Along the ICW we found it really interesting to see such big expensive homes on one side and then right across these cute little homes, I am choosing the cute little home.  Another odd sighting was a life boat from a cruise ship I guess tied up at the dock.  Really you never know what you will see along the ICW.
We spotted Kulana in the swamps near Charleston in an anchorage we will return on our trip back south.  Kulana is now the Inked Mermaid and we are so excited for Rick and Christi.  We just met them in Key West and this boat will be theirs during early next year.
We cruise through more low country of south Carolina we see beautiful landscapes and even this home with no road.  We caught and passed Liberte once again.  We saw an alligator and dolphins.  I was watching the dolphins and noticed the osprey in the tree, but while videoing this event where both must have been fishing, I actually caught neither hitting the water.  I did get the osprey flying away and I believe he was empty handed.  And more alligators, we were for sure in the swamp land of SC.  The first of two bald eagles we will see between Charleston and Georgetown.
As we near the Waccamaw River and Winyah Bay we pass Yawkey Wildlife Center that has a unique ferry type bridge that only closes when someone needs to cross the ICW so it was open when we passed by but just after we were through and the sailboat behind us it closed.  We head up river now to Georgetown and see our second bald eagle in flight along the water.  
We anchor and wait for Liberte who arrive just for several nights, so they rafted up with us.  Time to explore Georgetown which is very boater friendly and has a great little historic district by the water with shops, restaurants and more.  After Mark and Cheryl left we continued to explore and walk each day around Georgetown.  Noting some of the historic homes and the stories they tell.  A beautiful evening in May we enjoyed a wine and chocolate on the deck for our official anniversary.  As we watched the osprey fly we realized it was time to fly the drone. Islena arrived with Mike and Mimi on board.  They stopped to overnight here in Georgetown and we enjoyed happy hour and some laughs together and was able to get some shots of her in the harbor with Journey.  The view of Georgetown each night was special and beautiful.  The waters were so still this while we were here.  We met the guy on the sailboat next to us and he came over to give us some pointers on fishing around the Georgetown area.  Before he headed out Dee flew the drone one more time and got some really great shots of Georgetown and Journey.  Good night and Good Bye Georgetown.  We loved our stay.