We're anchored in Thoroughfare Creek, which is a tributary to the Waccama River where the ICW is located in this part of South Carolina. It's about 40 miles south of Myrtle Beach, SC.

Thoroughfare Creek goes around Sandy Island, a slightly inhabited island (or inhibited island as Ang might say) between the Waccama River and Thoroughfare Creek. There are some hardy families that live on the island, which is reachable only by boat and has no connercial power or water available. It is visited by lots of local boaters for swimming and jumping down the large sand bank faces. When we got here at 4 PM, there wer 3 or 4 small boats at the banks (see picture) but by 6 PM they were all gone and 5 other cruising yachts had anchored in the creek with us. It's called a creek, but it's 300 yards wide and 20 ft. deep. Except for the other yachts, all we can see is nature. This is what anchoring out is all about. Really beautiful and peacefull. I only have one bar on my cell phone so I'm lucky to have been able to connect to this blog, but it worked!
We took Daisy to the sand island and she quite enjoyed it. This is the sand bank facing Nonchalance. It's veryt steep and soft sand....good for jumping down, like "dune jumping".

We came about 75 miles North on the ICW today, mostly through salt marshes and some interesting rivers. There were dolphins surfing our wake at one of the wide spots in a tidal river basin. I couldn't get a picture of them jumping, but this is actually an adult and a baby dolphin. The baby is on top and the adult was swimming and surfing below. Maybe dolphin surfing school?

Evening time, and sunset plays with the light and shadows on the river. Tomorrow we're going to a marina in Myrtle Beach where we'll stay for the weekend because it's supposed to get very windy Saturday night and Sunday due to the low moving over the Southern U.S. today.