Burntside Adventures: Heading for Beaufort

I have been neglectful in posting on the blog. We left our protgected anchorage on Saturday, and moved on to Southport, where we had packages at Zimmerman Marine. They were closed but had given the boxes to the marina, where we stayed one night. Cindy got a chance for a run and I got a bike ride in. The stuff we ordered was all as planned, and I got the spare raw water pump I needed. Sunday we moved to an anchorage at the top of the Waccamaw River, we had stayed before, a beautiful remote spot. The owls that night sounded like they were on steroids. Monday, we moved to Georgetown for lunch, had a great burger, then down Winyah Bay to the entrance, for a planned run on the outside on Tuesday. Fueled up at Georgetown Dry Stack Marina, they had the lowest price fuel we had seen. Tuesday we did go outside to Charleston. The forcast on 2 sites was for following seas at 2-3 feet, should be pretty pleasant. Wrong! Going out the entrance was pretty ugly. Cindy got some good video, but not fun. After turning the corner outside the entrance, it improved, but was still a pretty up and down day literally. We had won free dockage at the Krogen Rendezvoux for the Charleston Marina, convenient to downtown. They were full so that was a flop. Instead went to the St John's Yacht Harbor 4-5 miles south. We wanted to tour Charleston on Wednesday, so had to get an Uber each way to the downtown historic district. The city is full of history. We signed up for a tour of the historic district and then Fort Sumter. Our tour bus had only the two of us on it, so the tour guide was all ours. He talked non stop for over an hour and a half, telling us about who lived where, their importance to the development of the area and lots of Revolutionary and Civil War history. Then on to Fort Sumter. The National Park guy there was great in explaining the history and structures. We walked around Charleston the rest of the afternoon and found a brewhouse with good IPA's and wings, and Uber'd back to the boat. Yesterday moved on south to an isolated anchorage 15 miles north of Beaufort where we may stop today for an hour or two if it works out. Yesterday we did firm up our exit strategy for a couple of weeks from now. We will take the boat back up the St. John's River to Sanford. They have a covered slip for us for a couple of months, mid November to mid January at a great price. It's fairly close to Eric and Shawn for our visit with them the weekend before Thanksgiving. Boat is running great.
Engine Hours 5253.1
Genset Hours 5661.4