DSK wrote in
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Oh c'mon! Sure the tides are big but this is the least developed and
prettiest part of the whole coast? There are zillions of beautiful
anchorages, rivers & creeks to explore... heck we could spend months
cruising Georgia and SC!


I always hear something like this down on the docks from the folks passing
through, but can never figure out why they are so anxious to get to Florida
so they can line up bow anchor to swim platform with the idiot in front of
them in that awful crowded ditch down there....??

There were some people from CT in a beautifully-kept 50' trawler at Ashley
Marina a year ago who said something like this about exploring our area. I
asked him if he'd ever been up in the lake above the dam in Lake Moultrie.
He had no idea he could get there, so we hauled out the charts and I drew
him a line up through the lock, which is free. Now invited to go as tour
guide/pilot, I took them up for a day or overnight. We got back 3 days
later and they've been coming back to Charleston to STAY ever since. I
think the trawler was the biggest boat to dock at The Dock Restaurant, just
below the dam in Moncks Corner. The Portuguese Bridge kinda spoiled the
restaurant view until we had lunch...(c; The Missus made the locals happy
as she had opened all the curtains so the restaurant crowd could get a look
into her "living room", as I heard one lady put it 2 tables away. The
catfish stew was delicious, as usual. Transients hardly ever go up there.
I've never figured out why. By the time we got back, the trawler bottom
and seawater passages were all fresh-water-flushed from just above Goose
Creek, not a bad idea at all!....

Stay in the deep part of the lake if you go. There are vast underwater
forests full of stumps that are NO FUN in big areas of the lake. There's
60' of water at the dam and plenty of depth in the cross-lake channel.

I brought along an old map of the area before they flooded it in the 30's.
We charted several of the submerged towns, tracking several church steeples
on their sonar. The buildings are still all there, underwater, abandoned.