We departed Beaufort, SC at 9:15 am on the way 31 miles north to Edisto Beach. Normally, part of the process of "waking up" Lucky Us involves opening all of the windows on the fly bridge enclosure. The water temperature is still about 84F so it does not get that cool at night. The boat was going about 10 mph (with the tidal current) and into a 14 mph breeze. We soon found ourselves closing some of the windows in order to get out of the breeze and warm up. A (very) small prelude to cooler things to come. The first picture is one of a dolphin riding in our wake. This happens so often that we rarely pay attention, but his dolphin caught out attention with the very loud noise it made when breathing. Call it paranoia if you want, but on a boat you notice "strange" noises and try to locate the cause... The dolphin kept us company for almost 30 minutes. 
One of the many beautiful (and different) sights today was this older yacht probably headed south for the winter. We went across two different passes out into the Atlantic as well as seemingly endless salt marsh with pine tree covered islands. We arrived at our destination of Edisto Beach at 1:15 pm after having lunch on the boat.
This is the view looking out over the bow of Lucky Us at the dock.On the right (East) is the landward side of Edisto Beach and on the left (West) is a huge area of salt marsh. Our main reason to stop here is to break up the 80 mile trip from Beaufort to Charleston into two easier days. Of course, we were once again very pleasantly surprised at how lovely the area is. In Edisto Beach the houses not only have addresses but they have names too such as Bird's Nest, Granddaddy's Place, On a Whim, etc... as indicated by artistic name plaques. 
Once again, we are in a bike friendly area with a combination of bike lanes, sidewalks and isolated bike paths such as this one. The picture was taken in bright sunlight in the middle of the afternoon, but the tree canopy was so thick that it was hard to get a picture.
The last picture shows the Admiral pointing to the water level at high tide. The picture was taken at low tide, and the water level is a full 2 feet below her feet. Thank goodness for floating docks, which make dock lines MUCH easier to handle.
Tomorrow we are off to Charleston for a multi-day stay. Just how many remains to be seen (and experienced).
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