Charleston

We left our snug anchorage early to catch the high tides because of some shoaling spots which were coming up. It was a good call as we had no issues. We are noticing there are a lot more palm trees intermingled with other trees the further south we go as you can see by the picture. The ICW is also becoming more and more windy an  shallow as we are going south. In a few days we should be down to Beaufort SC and we will probably start jumping back out to sea for Florida. As you can see this boater got caught up on a shoal, which is where the river opens up to the large Charleston harbour.

We saw this wooden tall ship (aluminum masts) in Charleston, there was enough crew with their spiffy uniforms cleaning the deck to have a good game of shinny!

I feel happy to have a dinghy to go ashore with when we get into a port – so when is a dinghy not enough? When you have your own helicopter instead, as this gargantuan boat has……

We were a bit disappointed with Charleston because there was nothing around the waterfront and it was a very busy city, I guess we were expected a smaller city…. We would have had to get a cab to go anywhere so we decided just to hang around the boat and keep moving tomorrow instead of staying longer. I picked up the wi-fi booster and tried it out. I have decided just to haul it up the mast for now until I see how much of a difference the height makes and decide where to mount it. Instead of seeing only a handful of way too weak signals without the booster I picked up 59 hot spots when it was hooked up!!! This will be a welcome addition.