Left Barefoot Marina, avoiding the huge log in the middle of the canal and headed down the ICW on an overcast but slightly less wet day than yesterday. This is a motoring day, passing some magnificent homes that look like they could house a whole institution and then passing a stretch with small cottage size homes, so it is a real mixed bag. 
Myrtle Beach is much classier from the water than it is from the land and there isn't a miniature golf course to be seen anywhere! The canal is scenic and is more like what we had expected the Dismal Swamp would look like than it really did; gnarly trees, moss hanging precariously from branches, mangrove swamps, and lots of twists and turns.
We pass under a couple of fixed bridges and got to Socastee Bascule Bridge just as a Shrimp Boat was going through and were lucky enough to sneak through when the bridge had a mandatory opening for this vessel. 
Came across an exotic Jungle Cruise Tour Boat parked in the backwaters in the middle of nowhereand looking quite out of place. Put down our anchor in a quiet little offshoot called Thoroughfare Creek. 
Chas put down two anchors, one at the front and one at the back just to test the method and we held firm and still all night.
Myrtle Beach is much classier from the water than it is from the land and there isn't a miniature golf course to be seen anywhere! The canal is scenic and is more like what we had expected the Dismal Swamp would look like than it really did; gnarly trees, moss hanging precariously from branches, mangrove swamps, and lots of twists and turns.
We pass under a couple of fixed bridges and got to Socastee Bascule Bridge just as a Shrimp Boat was going through and were lucky enough to sneak through when the bridge had a mandatory opening for this vessel. 
Came across an exotic Jungle Cruise Tour Boat parked in the backwaters in the middle of nowhereand looking quite out of place. Put down our anchor in a quiet little offshoot called Thoroughfare Creek. 
Chas put down two anchors, one at the front and one at the back just to test the method and we held firm and still all night.
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