Steamboat Creek - at anchor

 

View from the dinghy dock at Steamboat Creek

It was a perfect day for traveling, full sun with little wind. Although it’s been more windy than average this season, today was an exception - hopefully a harbinger of things to come. We made it through Ashepoo-Coosaw Cutoff and Watts Cut with no surprises, the Waterway Guide alerts and Bob423 track are still good. 

It was a Sunday so nobody was working

When you enter Steamboat Creek, you need to use Navionics SonarChart instead of an app based on the NOAA charts like Aqua Map. It’s one of the few places NOAA has not yet corrected a Lat/Long offset. If you follow a NOAA chart in, you may find shallow water since you’re not directed down the middle of the channel. 

Sunset on the trip back to Fleetwing after taking Hoolie ashore

We like to anchor near the boat ramp for convenient Hoolie relief. We expected a crowd at the boat ramp on a Sunday evening but it was deserted. It was closed since they were installing a new bulkhead. The docks were still open for dinghies, however. I had no problem landing Hoolie for his constitution. 

We’re off to Charleston on Monday and will stay three days, leaving Thursday for Awendaw and the anchorage there. I’m due to hear back on Monday if the invitation to take a ride on a USACE survey vessel has been approved. If so, I’ll have that ride on Tuesday and we will explore Charleston on Wednesday. It seems we have a spat of good weather coming our way for the rest of the trip north, let’s hope the forecast is accurate.