A Day Off In Georgetown

We have been on a bit of a good luck streak. A couple hours after we passed through a shoal area around an inlet, a four masted 100' schooner drawing 9 feet ran hard aground. They brought traffic to a complete stop and had no choice but to wait for high tide later that night. They came into our anchorage in the dark and anchored just in front of us. That was scary for us having a tall ship anchoring so close. Our luck continued the next day when a swing bridge had mechanical trouble opening for us. They got it open but after our clearing it was then closed for maintenance for at least a couple hours. We have now stopped in Georgetown for a day off the waterway. We have now covered 402 statute miles on the ICW. The waterway is just fascinating. Neither one of us takes a break to do something else for fear of missing something. The experienced couple we are traveling with take turns and read or do chores or as they did the other day, preparing pizza so it would be ready when we all got settled in and they asked us over. They set the pizza dough near the heat of the engine to rise. Georgetown is very cruiser friendly and everyone stops here so the anchorage is quite crowded. The two boats we are travelling with are at the far end, well out of our line of site. Georgetown is a wonderful small city and we wish we could stay longer. We did get caught up on laundry and shopping and had a very nice dinner at the River Room Restaurant which was highly recommended in Claiborne Young's cruising guide. He was spot on and we really enjoyed it. Linda had Shrimp and Grits which they are known for. I went with a more traditional Grouper, but we shared and it was all very good. We look forward to returning to Georgetown in the spring and staying a little longer. Linda did pick up some shrimp at the fish market so we are looking forward to grilling them.