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We left the dock early – just after 6am, and continued our wearty way up the ICW. It was a bklistering hot day – no wind, hot sun, and we took turns going below to get a break.

We did see beautiful scenery, large mansions with private docks stretching out 200m yeards to the water, with boats hanging up in the air. We also saw plenty of Dolphin, especially cows with calves. This must be a sopawning ground for them, and it’s alos a sign the water quality must be pretty good.

At one point the engine oil pressure  started falling, so we quickly dropped anchor in a bend, and topped up the oil, whcih was low. After that all was fine.

We had to pass through quite a few bridges, and learnt a valuable lesson at the 1st one today – teh Guide Book gives the calling channels as 16 and 13, but we tried for about an hour to call the operator to request an opening. Eventually someone took pity on us, and told us to use Channel 9, and we got a response and were let through. Apparently ALL bridges in SC use channel 9.

Bob had told me he wanted to leave early, and asked to be dropped off in Charleston. We weren’t sure if we could get through all the bridges to get to teh city cemnter, but passed by a Dockaminium with an open dock, so we did a quick drop without even docking.

Gerry and I cointinued into teh night, and well past Charleston found a nice little inlet where we dropped anchor form the night.