McClellanville to Myrtle Beach

Kim’s Korner:

We stopped at Leland Oil in McClellanville for the night. Since the town pretty much closes at 5:00, we rushed over to the seafood market and bought some shrimp to make shrimp boil for dinner. We removed the 33-year-old oven/stove from the boat when we bought it and chose not to replace it. We use the grill, microwave and toaster oven regularly. We bought an induction hot plate as well which we’ve only used a few times but so far has worked really well and I can use it on the aft deck so it doesn’t heat or stink up the cabin. I have only missed the oven/stove a few times and have used the space for storage which has worked for us. Sorry – I didn’t mean to get off on that.

After the fog lifted, we visited Georgetown which is a small, quaint town with good restaurants and gift shops. They have several small museums and we had just enough time to settle in and see one before it closed at 5:00. The best part of the day though was watching the pelicans dive for food. Ok so I’ve seen this all along but there were just so many today – maybe it was because we were in narrow channels which made it seem like there were more. I mean every time I looked, at least three would be smacking the water. I’ve noticed at the inlets, the areas which open to the Atlantic, I’ll see so many more birds as well as dolphins so I’m assuming the fish at these inlets must be more in number or much better in taste. :-)

I finally saw an alligator from OVERTIME – yay – long overdue! It was small but it was an alligator! We also saw bald eagles for the first time in quite a while. Also – lots of horseflies, deer flies and some little things that didn’t bite but were everywhere! Watch David in the video I took of him ;-)  I actually had only two “bugs” try to bite me the whole day so it wasn’t like we were being eaten alive but… they were everywhere! David was swatting at them left and right – he was quite amusing :-) I finally sent him down to the “closed up” cabin for lunch and to chill a bit.

Friday, we had the most beautiful scenery yet – maybe on the whole trip so far. The marshes gave way to swamps with cypress trees and it lined both sides of the ICW for maybe 30 miles on the Waccamaw River. The water was deep and we saw maybe three boats total – and those were small fishing boats. We saw numerous osprey nests with the parents in the nests so I’m assuming there were eggs. It was just a gorgeous day! The day ended with us at Barefoot Marina in Myrtle Beach – nothing quiet or peaceful here!

While in Myrtle Beach, we rode our bikes to the beach and again enjoyed riding them on the beach. We saw a lot of big jellyfish on the sand during low tide – not sure I’d want to be swimming in that water. Our neighbor boat just finished the loop several weeks ago and this is their home port. They are the nicest people ever and even offered us a car to use so we took them up on it and went to the Tanger Outlet Mall which is about 5 miles away – what can I say – I thoroughly enjoyed myself but was very careful about what I bought since we do have limited space. Today has been rainy which has been good – David did some work on the boat and I’ve been trying to plan future stops as well as catch up on our blog. Planning and blogging can be very time-consuming! And when there is no wifi… which of course there hasn’t been so we’ll upload my pictures later – ugh!
Leland Oil at McClellanville SC Pictures!
Harborwalk at Georgetown SC Pictures!
Myrtle Beach Pictures!