On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:11:11 -0400, DSK wrote:

Frank Boettcher wrote:

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:27:51 -0400, DSK wrote:

Sounds like a good time.

Confused me with the reference to Beaufort. Wondered how you got way
down there so quick. Then I looked at map and saw you're talking
about the "other" Beaufort.

I'm familiar with the SC Beaufort. Spent some of my wasted youth as a
guest of the government on the their resort island across the sound
from Hilton Head.


I'm somehwat familiar with Beaufort ("Byew-fort") and Port
Royal, used to race down there several times a year and
cruised through a couple times. It is also getting built up,
but there is still a lot of wilderness. The tides down there
are a lot more concern.

We sailed past Parris Island many times and often thought of
the boots there, but never seen or heard anything going on.
It's a great place to train people to endure heat & sleep in
the swamp, also makes them eager to go to other countries.

Just made me eager to leave Parris Island, although not as bad as
advirtised. ITR at LeJuene was another story, however.

One really lovely thing about that area is the dolphins. The
tidal wetlands are prime breeding grounds for all the little
critters that dolphins love to eat; on an outgoing tide
you'll often see them gather at the outflows of little
creeks. We don't see as many dolphins up our way.

Plenty of them my way. I was in Mexico Beach, Fl in May and we would
stop the boat in a school and some would come right up to the boat,
stick their heads out of the water and let you touch them. I think
some of them have been conditioned to get handouts, even though the
local marine resource people keep publishing fliers telling boaters
not to do that.

Frank

Beaufort NC is one of the best jumping-off points from the
ICW to the Caribbean or Bahamas. Often lots of long distance
cruisers passing thru.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King