Sunday - May 8, 2011

Fountain in Georgetown




Looking down the street in Georgetown - not very busy







Lat 32 46 72; long 79 57 23; fuel 203 gal; eng 773.33



We left Charleston by ourselves today. The past days traveling companions decided to stay another day and Lady Royal had to get her engine problems fixed. We moved out Charleston harbor and turned to port at market #2 to re-enter the watereway. The trip was relatively smooth with a skinny spot around McClellandsville. We were going through at close to high tide so no problem but could have been if at low tide. We arrived at Georgetown at around 4 and tied up at the local city marina which was right downtown. Unfortunately, as it was Sunday, nothing was open other than a couple of bars even though it was mother's day. In fact there were very few people around at all. We dropped into a local bar for a beer and an iced tea ( I had the beer) as it was very hot. We then went for a walk down the street, but as I said, nothing was open, so we finally went back to the boat and had dinner on board. Actually, I think Georgetown has seen better days since many of the stores were empty. There was a paper mill operating (you could tell by the smell) but not much other industry.

I cooked a mother's day dinner for Brenda and since each of the kids phoned during the day, she was happy.