Supposedly there are 120 golf courses in the North Myrtle beach and Myrtle Beach area. We saw many people golfing along the ICW . Indeed this seems to be the only wildlife for a while. One course runs a gondola over the waterway. I thought for sure our mast would take them out but no sweat. The trick here appears to be stay afloat. For several miles the rockpile continues. Coquina stone riprap crowding the edges of the channel and a rocky bottom. It is a narrow channel too. Little by little this goes from a narrow threatening waterway to one with less development and erosion. There are more trees and they are hung with spanish moss. There is however, a great deal of work for dredges. In one place, the channel marker was about 10 feet out of the water! The cruising guides keep giving lat and long for shoal areas but I think it might be easier to say where there are no shoals. Development continued to fade away as we entered the Waccamaw River. It's broad and happily very deep. It feels as though you could touch the edges when the depth sounder says 26 feet of water. Deep forests appear behind greengold marshes. Many tree stumps and everything is hung with spanish moss. Beautful in a spooky sort of way, very scenic and peaceful. After a sunny and believe it or not WARM afternoon the Waccamaw river joined the Great Peedee river outside Georgetown. Anchored off the town center and totally switched directions 1/2 hour later when the tide changed. You could watch all skippers adjusting lines as if on cue. Anchor held fine and we slept through the next tide change.
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