Awendaw Creek

We had planned on being in Georgetown so that we could go to Church. We checked online and were leaning on going to the First Baptist Church in town. Yesterday we had a great day checking out the local stores and came across the most amazing yarn store, (really wish Richard’s sister Kathy could have been there with us)! We noticed that there were Bibles in the store to give away so Richard felt led to ask the lady running the store if she could recommend a good Church in the area.  She immediately recommended the First Baptist Church and offered to meet us there! So that is where we went this morning and sure enough Ellen met us on the steps and sat with us. It was a very old (built in the 1750’s) beautiful Church that truly felt Spirit led. We felt very blessed in meeting Ellen and attending this service.

On the way back to the boat we decided to stop at Aunny’s Restaurant, which serves traditional Southern food… we were not disappointed! Once we asked a lot of questions Richard decided on Fried Chicken with candied Yams, Black eyed Peas and Collard Greens and I had the Seafood Platter (Whiting, clams and Shrimp) with yellow Rice, Mac and cheese and Fried Corn, everything was amazing! There was so much on my plate that I brought it back in a doggy bag and Richard and I shared it for supper. After supper we were treated to dolphins swimming around the boat.

We decided to pull up anchor and get a few miles down the water so that we could make Charleston by tomorrow.  We motored all the way mainly through marshes. It’s neat to see a Shrimp Trawler that looks like it’s going through a field!

 There were quite a few spots were it was very shallow… at one point our depth read 0.0 below keel… not comfortable, but we didn’t feel like we hit. We pushed it a little to far and ended up arriving at our spot (Awendaw Creek) just as the sun was setting… a little too close for comfort! We only saw 1 other sailboat today and followed him in to the anchorage where there were 3 other boats already anchored.

So as I sit hear writing this I can hear the Shrimp underneath the boat, it sounds like rice krispies popping.

Note: Some people (you know who you are..) haven’t realized that you can click on a picture to expand it :)