Nov. 8

It seems a lot of people here had the same idea this morning as about 15 boats all headed for the Wappoo Creek swing bridge on the migration south. The bridge's first opening is at 9:00 PM and nobody wanted to be forced to wait another hour for the next opening. We slowly worked our way to the front of the pack and turned to face the upstream to the current and come to almost a complete stop in front of the bridge.
After we were through I throttled back to 2200 rpm and moved along at between 5 and 8 m/h on our way to South Edisto anchorage. It was only 30 miles from Charleston and I was in no hurry to get there.
The days run was uneventful as we were chasing high tide most of the way. The main ICW trouble spots were no problem as due to the tide we had plenty of water. The weather seems to be co-operating and the sun felt good after 4 days of cold weather.
As we came out of the last cut we swung North around the bend and anchored in a beautiful spot. We got the anchor down and set by 2:30