We pulled into Georgetown, South Carolina expecting to anchor out and dingy in, but the anchorage was full, of mostly of old abandon boats. We ended up staying with the nice folks at Boat Shed Marina. Piggly Wiggly to the rescue again!! They came and picked me up to shop for groceries and drove me back. In the morning we walked to town and enjoyed breakfast at Thomas' Cafe, (Captain Mike was enthralled with the yellow grits) I got my hair cut, and we went to the Kudzu Bakery where fresh bread and goodies were procured. Mike suggested we go the Rice Museum and I'm thinking...a rice museum??? How interesting can that be?? Very! The docent was an elderly lady (elderly means older then us!) and very committed to local history. The museum, a product of the Georgetown Historical Society, was extraordinarily well done and admission was free. In addition to explaining the labor intensive procedure for growing rice, they also had on display an American made sailing vessel from the 1720's. It had been recovered from a local river, and removed from the water in the summertime in the presence of alligators and snakes to keep local curiosity seekers from plundering the site. Winter would have been the preferred season when most of the wild things were hibernating. The the roof of the Historical Museum had been removed and the boat lowered in with a crane. We took the River Walk back to the boat where we were tempted, but did not feed the alligators! Just before the marina, we stopped at the shrimp docks and bought fresh shrimp from 10 gallon buckets for our dinner.
We pulled into Georgetown, South Carolina expecting to anchor out and dingy in, but the anchorage was full, of mostly of old abandon boats. We ended up staying with the nice folks at Boat Shed Marina. Piggly Wiggly to the rescue again!! They came and picked me up to shop for groceries and drove me back. In the morning we walked to town and enjoyed breakfast at Thomas' Cafe, (Captain Mike was enthralled with the yellow grits) I got my hair cut, and we went to the Kudzu Bakery where fresh bread and goodies were procured. Mike suggested we go the Rice Museum and I'm thinking...a rice museum??? How interesting can that be?? Very! The docent was an elderly lady (elderly means older then us!) and very committed to local history. The museum, a product of the Georgetown Historical Society, was extraordinarily well done and admission was free. In addition to explaining the labor intensive procedure for growing rice, they also had on display an American made sailing vessel from the 1720's. It had been recovered from a local river, and removed from the water in the summertime in the presence of alligators and snakes to keep local curiosity seekers from plundering the site. Winter would have been the preferred season when most of the wild things were hibernating. The the roof of the Historical Museum had been removed and the boat lowered in with a crane. We took the River Walk back to the boat where we were tempted, but did not feed the alligators! Just before the marina, we stopped at the shrimp docks and bought fresh shrimp from 10 gallon buckets for our dinner.
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