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Larry

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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... till I look at the readout which says 77'!!

There is a deep hole in a bend in open water...

Phew

The Folly River goes behind Folly Beach, an island S of the Charleston
Jetties, is only accessable via the Kiawah River and a terrible shifting
little channel the shrimpers keep marked so they can go in and out.

On the Charleston side of the only road bridge to the island, the water
is about 12' deep as you go N until you come to a little non-descript
tidal creek to nowhere. Right where that creek intercepts the non-
flowing "river", there is a hole too deep for my 500' sonar to find the
bottom of. There must be some kind of cavern under the hole because at
times when the spring tides are really ripping, a little whirlpool is
visible at the surface over the center of the hole, indicating a lot of
water is going "somewhere" down that hole. I've never read anything
about the hole, but have had lots of fun over the years trying to sonar
the bottom of it. You can't get a big boat to the hole because the
bridge is only about 5' clearance at low tides.

Very interesting fishing around that hole, too, not known to many here.

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Speaking of sonaring fun, if you go straight out from the point where the
road goes into the water at Bonneau Beach, SC, on Lake Moultrie by the
little marina, there is a whole little town to sonar under you about 130-
150 feet alongside the road that got submerged in the 1930's when they
built the lakes...Marion and Moultrie. It's great fun to scan across the
road and see if you can find the houses and especially the 80' tall
church steeple on your display. I never took the time to sketch the
town, though. Wonder if a scanning sonar would "see" it??

Larry
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Democrats are raising taxes on oil companies by $16,000,000,000.
Oil companies don't pay taxes, just like every other company.
Consumers pay all taxes, corporate and individual.
What's the price of a gallon of regular going to go to to pay $16B more?