Boy last night was not too bad. Once the wind died the boats just hung on the anchors and everyone had plenty of room.
After dinner we all congregated on Celtic Cross for a drink and some talk and called it a night by 9pm. It was a long day and everyone was whipped.
Today we got an early start – 6:45am and headed into the Waccamaw River and were immediately greeted with an adverse current 4.4 – 4.7 kts. This stayed with us all the way till we nearly hit the Little River Swing bridge and then we had a great current for the last 7 miles!!
We finally reached the Calabash Creek at R2 around 2pm. It was nearly low tide and quite shallow to enter – 6 feet!! We found a little more water inside and I anchored in 8 feet with the tide level expected to drop another foot. Celtic Cross made it in just fine but poor Waterparke grounded at the entrance. We went over to assist him but Boat US just happened to show up and offered assistance. He got him off with great difficulty and then escorted him to the anchorage and helped him anchor NEAR ME!! Ohhh shades of last night. This is a bit squirrelly here too where you go forward on the anchor but hopefully the current is not as bad as it was in Cow House Creek.
Sweet Chariot much to their credit decided to hand at a nearby marina. They draw 6 feet and could not enter here anyway at low tide and cannot leave until the tide comes up in the morning.
Celtic Cross invited everyone over for dinner tonight so I need to end this and clean up.. Boy it’s nice to have not such a long day today.
Tomorrow will be a long day and we hope to anchor at Wrightsville beach tomorrow night -- getting close to home now!!
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