2023-11-04 Heading south - too cold

We hung out at Carolina Beach for a day.  Sold the old outboard - nice to have that done.   To celebrate we had a good lunch out at Flamin Amy's but disappointed, as the chips were not as good as remembered.  Artwork and food still good.

Like the artwork at Flamin Amy's

Food still yummy

We got groceries, and got a couple parts at the hardware store.  There are lots of murals around town which are fun to see.

Nice mural

The Carolina Shag is partner dance done to beach music.  Still competitions today for dancing it.

Next day, only moving a few miles, trying to time our ICW journey to favorable currents, so had time for lunch out again at one of our well know eateries.   This was the most decorated McD we have been in.

Quite the Halloween decor in the McDonalds.

Carolina beach is good for watching birds.  Love the pelicans

Carolina beach is where we start to see Pelicans more often

No zoom used on this photo - was not too scared of us at all.

The weather forecast was indicating a low of only 52, then it changed and the low was going to be 34.   Kris decided that it was simply too cold, and quickly booked two nights at the dock in Georgetown.  So we headed south.

Passed the "normal" homes along the ICW

One of the smaller homes

Cloudy dreary day motoring - but he heat is on inside.

Got a kick out of this very large fancy home, yet has bill board advertisements on the dock railing- think they need the business to pay for the house?

Halloween was spent anchored out near Enterprise off the ICW- but we celebrated by eating too much candy

Our Halloween decoration and bag of candy (empty- ate it all)

Pretty morning at the anchorage

We made it to Georgetown to our dock and turned on the heat.  Spent two nights warm, while outside it did get down to around 35 degrees at night.   Kris sewed the dinghy shoe bags, Dean did a load of laundry, but as we are cheap, and the weather was warming to above 45 at night we decided to head south.   It was cold

 

Kris at watch, bundled up against the cold.

Anchored just shy of Charleston on Friday night - pizza night.  Unfortunately our propane sniffer is acting up, and seems everytime we use the oven - the alarm goes off, even though there is not a propane leak.  Only way to shut the alarm off is to shut off power to the sniffer - which also shuts off power to the stove.    Needed to cook the pizza, so when the alarm when off, we decided to continue to let it go - constant beep beep beep beep, two beeps every second for 15 minutes while the pizza is cooking. We went outside and waited it out.

Kris with her hearing protectors on outside in the cold waiting for the pizza to cook.

It was worth it, as anyone who has eaten Dean's pizza knows.

Decision time now - do we continue motoring down the ICW - or do we make one overnight jump offshore.  Winds look good - but seas look rough.  Plan is to head offshore, which we will do today, but if we get offshore and hate it, we might turn right around and come back in.