Beaufort SC- We have dinner with friends

One of the great joys of cruising is meeting up with friends for dinner!

 It was a busy day with laundry and getting a delivery of groceries from the nearby Publix via Instacart. This time the delivery was flawless and they came in less than an hour from the order over using their app. Although we do pay more than in store prices, it’s a bargain compared to renting a care or using Uber. 

This dock is north of the marina and open to day dockage

We had dinner with friends we knew that used to live in New York. They came south and built a new house which is gorgeous. The company was great, the food was top notch, and we had a great time just getting together. Cruising the ICW is such fun!

When we came back from dinner, we saw American Star docked

Whenever I’m in a marina nowadays, people drop by to say hi and thanks. It’s always appreciated and I try to encourage people to post when they see a problem or shoaling. I try to help with any questions so everyone can be as safe as possible cruising. 

On the way back to the boat tonight, we saw the American Star cruise ship tied up on the Beaufort dock by all the swings in the photos from yesterday. It wasn’t there this afternoon so it had to have come in some time after 6:00 pm. I had not realize there was that much water there. 

We plan on anchoring at Steamboat Creek on Sunday night but between us and our anchorage are two very shallow areas: Ashepoo-Coosaw Cutoff and Watts Cut. Since we don’t have that far to go, we’ll leave at 10:00 in order to have a rising tide as we pass through and a close to slack tide when leaving from an inside slip at Beaufort, always a challenge.