Boat Yard Marina, Georgetown, South Carolina

Left Charleston early this morning, long travel day today. We were going to Georgetown, nearly 70 miles away. Luckily the tide was with us most of the way, so we arrived around 3:30. That was the good news. The bad news is that just before we got here one engine stopped on us again. Jim and Gloria in Crawdad were great, they docked ahead of us and jumped out of the boat to help us get in, and actually Wayne did a very good job on one engine. Wayne then spent the next couple of hours in the engine room, found a lot of sludge in the newly changed filter. We have not been putting algaecide in the fuel because a mechanic said it is already in the Valve Tec fuel and so not necessary. We've been using that fuel, but think we need the algacide as well.
The trip here was good, weather was warm and sunny, light breeze. Saw an alligator floating in the water along the bank, rice fields along the shoreline, with irrigation ditches and what looks like locks to control water. Lots of marshy land again today, but also many beautiful homes along the water in places where the land was a little higher.
Once we docked in Georgetown, Wayne got to work on the engines; Gloria and I went for a walk into town. Nice town with many historic mansions along the street, small shops. Came back just in time to attend a Docktail party at the marina next door with Married with Her and Scoperta.

A house on Goat Island is trying to make people slow down, his sign says " Join Wake Watchers" 

One last view of Charleston. The big white boat is "The World", the floating condo

If all goes well, we will go to North Myrtle Beach tomorrow, our last stop in South Carolina.

This building in Georgetown was built with a cast iron facade in front

Gloria and I saw one of these in a craft store. It is a joggling board. Courting couples sit at either end, and can rock or kind of jig up and down on it, as the courtship progresses, they move closer together. By the time they get to the center, they are engaged. Once we knew what we were looking at, we saw them on  few front porches just on the main street.

Much of our trip today was past mud flats, marsh