{"id":965,"date":"2015-11-06T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/?p=965"},"modified":"2015-11-07T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T02:07:12","slug":"gators-and-dolphins-and-shoals-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/2015\/11\/gators-and-dolphins-and-shoals-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators and dolphins and shoals&#8230;oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11\/6\/15<br \/>\nIsle of Palms SC, ICW<br \/>\nPosition: 32 48.381N, 79 45.592W<br \/>\nPosted by Bill<\/p>\n<p>Morning at Mimim Creek where we anchored last night:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv3%3B95%3A%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3Deffe67gd08df3%2F7c3f0d%3A9f%2F9%3A76egf9%3A8%3Adot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After we got the anchor down last night, the bugs swarmed us.  This morning, parts of the boat were covered with these black bugs:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv34%3A46%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D7f7h5%3A%3B%3B0fh74%2F74i70d633%2Ff569ie3%3Bgd5%3Bot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThose who know me know that I am a bug phobe, and I don&#8217;t know if it is a coincidence, but they love ME.  Glad we were able to go inside to the protection from this stuff!!<\/p>\n<p>Today we left at 9 AM.  We got to sleep in because we were transiting a notoriously bad shoal area at McClellanville, and we needed to hit that no earlier than 12 noon.  Leaving at 9 would put us there based on our average speed.  We arrived a little earlier due to a favorable tidal current, but we made it through the shoal area without incident!!  Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Then we made the push to Isle of Palms, a beach area of Charleston.  If you remember from <a href=\"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/2014\/11\/white-knuckle-day-in-the-icw\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, we have friends Terry and Cassandra that live there, and we had a great time with them on our trip down last fall.  We hooked up with them for dinner and drinks and had a great time again!!<\/p>\n<p>Along the ICW, we saw our first alligator:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv33544%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3Df939%3A9%3A70d9%3A8%2F755e0c82i%2F73gf65d46he6ot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAnd our first dolphins in quite a while:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp93232%3Euqcshlukaxroqdfv3673%3B%3Enu%3D6646%3E863%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3Di546%3B%3Bd504e67%2F79gf0d4d%3A%2F3d%3A744%3Ag5f3hot1lsi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a long day again!<\/p>\n<p>There is a pretty strong front coming in on Sunday and Monday, so we need to get to Charleston to wait it out.  Charleston provides provisioning and entertainment while we wait out the weather and we will move on tomorrow to Charleston Maritime Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/6\/15 Isle of Palms SC, ICW Position: 32 48.381N, 79 45.592W Posted by Bill Morning at Mimim Creek where we anchored last night: After we got the anchor down last night, the bugs swarmed us. This morning, parts of the boat were covered with these black bugs: Those who know me know that I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icw-intracoastal-waterway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ILlB-fz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}