Back in Charleston, South Carolina
AJAYA'S CRUISE
Phil & Nikki Hoskins
Wed 25 Nov 2009 22:01
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We are back where our USA adventure began last
May. We haven't met anybody who doesn't like this famous city of
Charleston and we were very glad to have made this our original port
of entry - even if we had intended to enter further up the coast at Morehead
City. Last time we were here we treated ourselves to a few days in the City
Marina - the most expensive dock we have yet to visit. This time round we
are in the 'cheap seats', anchored off the City Marina in a congested mooring
field full of yachts some no doubt ready to spend Thanksgiving Day here. That's
tomorrow (Thurs). Even at this distance though the Magadock wifi signal reaches
us in good strength and we have our link to the outside world via the world wide
web. What more could we ask for?
Thoughts of moving on southwards today were quickly
snuffed out by a toilet problem that manifested itself yesterday
afternoon. Never the most pleasant of tasks and no real reason for it to have
blocked as we are very careful about what goes down the bowl, apart from Phil's
attempt to pump a few wetwipes down the system a few months back, not realising
they are almost indestructible. To cut a long story short the outlet pipe from
the toilet to the outside world under the sea had accumulated a growth of lime
scale that was almost unbelievable in just over a year. Apart from the use of
acid which we don't have onboard, the only remedy is to remove the pipe from the
system, take it outside and without drawing too much attention (this is the
clean living USA after all) give the old snake a dam good
thrashing. This breaks up the deposits lining the interior of the
pipe making it as good as new once more.
So that job (no pun intended) is completed and
in local speak we are now 'good to
go' . Next planned stop is Beaufort (pronounced Bew-fort) South Carolina.
Then comes the state of Georgia before we hit Fernandina Beach Northern Florida.
We are tempted to head south on the outside of the ICW and once we have a good
idea of the weather for the next few days we'll make that decision. If not then
we'll wend our way through the rivers and cuts of southern South
Carolina.
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