Splash!

With warm weather comes our first swim!!

Monday
1425 –and also cometh the bugs, no Maine crazed mosquitos, but those pesky little “no see ums” and if not for temps in the 70’s, snow in Maine and the ability to have such a wonderful experience complain we shall not. A bit of fog this AM as we departed Charleston ducking back into the “ditch” for the 90 mile trip to Savannah with a stopover in Beaufort, SC (pronounced Bew-fort and not to be confused with Beaufort, NC). Yesterday some great blogging at the College of Charleston library followed by provisioning at Harris Teeter bringing back for me memories of UVA times (a quick shout out to the UVA friends who I hope continue to follow the journey Ed, John, Steve and Evan)that was then capped off by brats and burgers at the newly remodeled home of Georgia and Brian with friends Rick and Courtney. (We even got to watch some of the patriots game as well!!) Ending the day with a fully loaded zodiac trip back to the Audax, morale is high and the mittens are off as we continue to move South.

1700 – Official Cocktail Hour (Ending time: When the mosquito’s did decide to finally show up!!!!!)

Tuesday
1046 – Who really needs to see where they are going anyways!! Awakening to THICK fog we decided to depart in the soup around 0840. Waiting, waiting and still waiting for the fog to lift as we steam along the Coosaw river implementing a new fog rotation schedule that includes 1 hour driving, 1 hour nav’ing and 1 our on the manual fog horn aka 30 blows and tired lungs. A short 25 mile jump to Beaufort today with the ETA currently putting us in around 1330.

Photo tour of Charleston and the trip from Charleston to Beaufort

Photo of our own personal rainbow during our trip in the fog today (really sweet!):

The picture I just took of the view I am looking out at from the porch of the Common Ground coffee shop here in Beaufort as this entry is typed.