Sunday June 19, 2011

Father's Day ....

We got underway from the Wacca Wache marina at 08:35 for our cruise up the Redneck Riviera. This part of the Waccamaw River was one of the most scenic from the natural perspective in our opinion. The river winds through moss draped cypress trees.

 

The Waccamaw River is the colour of tea as can be seen in the photo of our wake. This stains the bow of the boat with a brown moustache.

 Waccamaw River "Tea"

The boat traffic was fairly heavy with numerous "no wake" zones which cut our average speed considerably. Lots of people out enjoying the river in their pontoon boats jet-skis and runabouts. We had one hold up at a low bridge as we approached Myrtle Beach.

The river turned into a man-made canal as we entered Myrtle Beach. Here we got to pass by a few golf courses (one of which I played a few years ago).

We saw a couple of unique solutions for getting golfers across the ICWW channel.

A Private 65 ft Clearance Bridge at the Grand Dunes Resort

 

The Cable Tram at Waterways Golf Club

One had a sign giving us our distance to New York City.

There are also some great new homes along the ICWW to provide some entertaining viewing.

Joan finally got to remove another critter from her sighting punch list. A whale!

 

The day was very hot and humid with a heat index of 107 F. At around 14:00 the sky started to look a little questionable and given the lack of other places to stop for the next few hours, we pulled into the Myrtle Beach Yacht Club. After returning from the office to register for our slip, the sky looked like this.

Twenty minutes later, this was the view through the windshield as we sat in the dry air-conditioned cockpit.

 After the rain stopped, we managed to take advantage of the Yacht Club's laundry and pool.

Our Trip Cumulative Totals are:


Total Distance Travelled = 971.7 nm
Travel Time = 137 h 11 m