Wednesday April 9, 2025
Woke up to a brisk beautiful sunny morning. The high today will be mid 60’s. Very different from the mid 80’s and humid last 10 days we’ve had.
We pull anchor and headed to Leland Oil to get some fuel, ice and walk to a very popular seafood restaurant for lunch. We met the owner (Rutledge) who mostly runs the dock/marina by himself. Super friendly…he offered to drive us to the restaurant but we need the exercise! We decide we will bring him back a piece of pie.
We walked to lunch, passing a 1000 year old oak tree. The town is full of big hoouses and flowers everywhere!
The restaurant (TW Graham & Co) was everything we have read about it. It’s been in business since 1894! Food was terrific! We started with fried green tomato’s and grouper fingers, then shared a flounder/shrimp combo. Of course we had leftovers to bring back along with a piece of their famous key lime pie (and one for Rutledge). That’ll be later.
After stuffing ourselves, we walked to the Carolina Seafood Market. There we bought a pound of fresh shrimp and crab dip.
Back to the boat we went to continue on the Georgetown, SC. We came across a floating swing bridge that is used as a ferry crossing. Interesting.
We were seeing smoke along the way in a few different areas that looked like controlled burns. It was very windy at this time, so that surprised me. Towards the end of the Minim Creek Canal where it dumps into Winyah Bay, there was a large fire right on the edge of the shore. The smoke was awful and visability was not the best. We got through it pretty quickly.
We get into the Bay where the wind really churned up the water. We started out in 1-2 foot swells and ended up in 3-4 foot swells for a bit. We were rockin’ and rollin and even getting wet! It was only about 30 minutes, but still-not my favorite. Good thing I have a good captain!
Once we arrived in Georgetown, we looked for a decent anchorage. We finally settled on one and its just a shrt dinghy ride to the town. We decided to go in for a small bite at Buzz’s Roost. A local favorite dive bar. We shared a burger, which was pretty darn good. We could see our boat from our table and watched a beautiful sunset over the old steel mill.
Tomorrow we will explore the town and stay another night. Rain is likely for Friday, so we may even stay two nights.
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Dang 1000 year old oak tree?! Very cool! Also how fun to visit a restaurant that classic – what a cute town 😍
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