First Time To Bass Creek

The week-end of June 8, 2013 the Charleston Cruising Club held one of their annual outings at Sandy Beach near the end of Kiawah Island this month.  Walter and I thought this would be a great trip, so we headed out of the marina for a new adventure.  It seems all of our trips are new adventures, huh.   Must be a good thing, means we are continuing to spread our wings or should I say sails.

Anyways, it was not really a sailing day so we motored through the harbor to the Wappoo Bridge, through Elliotts Cut and down the Stono River (sounds like a game of Candyland) a few hours later we were there.

We crept up the Bass River just around the bend from Sandy beach to look for a place to anchor, we found the perfect place, dropped anchor (first time again, yeah) and took a brief sigh of relief. 

Now it was time to take "plus 1" out on her maiden voyage.  Walter thought he would take her for a quick spin just to make sure that she was ready.

She was, so I packed a bag and some towels, climbed in "plus 1" and off we went. We had a great time, great food, thirst quenching drinks and great conversation!

Being our first outing in "plus 1" we thought it best to head back to the boat before dark, not that we did not have faith in her but with our record playing it safe is sometimes best.  We got back just fine as a matter of fact in time to have a little wine.

While enjoying our wine we tried to set up a wind sock.  The wind sock will be something we will have to work on, we just could not get it to do what we needed it to do, so we were in for a little bit of a warm night, but that was nothing compared to the "No See Ums" or should I say "I See Ums" that decided to join us on in the cockpit.  Walter got the worst of it that night, they just loved him, they barley bothered me until 2 days later.  I looked like I fed an entire colony.

Morning came, we had our coffee and enjoyed our quiet surroundings, it also brought a new experience for me, showing off the back end of the boat 

After showers, we figured it was time to pull up anchor and start the trip back home but Walter wanted to take "plus 1" out for another spin and investigate some more of Bass River and I think also to reward "plus 1" for not letting us down.

Walter had the camera while out and took a great picture of the boat "4 Ever & A Day"

It was time, we pulled anchor and motor sailed most of the way home.  We had such a good time, there is no doubt we will do this trip again.