Lake Effect on Great Loop: South Carolina

Arriving in South Carolina. A week in South Carolina. We spent our week seeing the vegetation change, golf courses galore and meeting old friends. After our week travelling in Georgia, we arrived in South Carolina. Our first stop Hilton Head. We stopped at Hilton Harbour Marina. This small marina and RV park has a beautiful unheated pool overlooking the Waterway. The beach is all shells, not the nice crushed ones either. Yvon found out when his hat flew off the deck. He had to jump the fence and climb down to retrieve it before the nine feet tide swallows it.

Later, we called Uber to go out for dinner. He picked us up in a 2008 Jaguar. Not too shabby. Turns out the restaurant had burnt down, and our driver recommended another restaurant. It was a great meal.

We started the next day with a short twenty miles to Beaufort. It is the second largest city in South Carolina. It has a beautiful historic center and the city marina is minutes from it. They offer a free shuttle to see it. After the tour, we walked to the Chocolate Tree. We bought a box of chocolate from the same place that Forest Gump had in the movie. After, we walked to the bridge where he stopped running. We stopped running before we reached the bridge. For your information, there is a 10 miles run every year across the bridge should you wish to relive that moment.It also has an annual Water Festival since 1956.

Beaufort is were we celebrated eight months on the Great Loop.

We moved on the Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina. The marina has a courtesy van to take to the historic district. We took advantage of it three times. It is such a beautiful old city. The buildings are impressive. They have an old market that is still open but they don't sell fish, fruits and vegetables anymore. It has been replaced with handcrafted goods, pastries and souvenirs. We had lunch at Hyman. It is a fifth generation restaurant. I sat at the same table as Anthony Hopkins, just not on the same day. We also ate at the Kicking Chicken. Wish we had more time to spend here.

We are off to Georgetown. It is the third largest city in South Carolina. It felt like a town though. Unfortunately, all the museums were closed. We walked around and saw those old mansions and we had dinner with our friends. The city has a Harborwalk on the waterfront and we took it to return to the boat. It's a place worth visiting again.

Our last stop in South Carolina was North Myrtle Beach. We have visited it before but the changes were surprising. Miles and miles of condos and luxury homes line the ICW.

We spent time there with Loopers from Idaho. We originally met them in Joliet and have continued seeing them here and there. We followed them out of South Carolina but we continued a few hours further. When we arrived in North Carolina we met other Loopers that we had lost touch with. It looks like this will happen again and again. Well here is our journey so far. It's starting to look like a loop.