Saturday, November 15, 2008

Beaufort, SC Again Nov 11-14

We liked Beaufort the first time on the way north, and found we like it even more with this stay. Our favorite restaurant here is Emily's which has a good selection of tapas. We toook the courtesy car to the ABC store and local food store. We were only going to stay 2 nights, but on the day of our planned depature it was extremely foggy, plus we had already decided we would like to spend some more time in the town.
On Friday the 14th we left with the tide change as the current in the marina is wicked makng manuvering difficult. Our destination was Hilton Head Island. Weather was reasonable on departure. It turned foggy as the day wore on to the point we could only see a few hundred yards by the time we arrived at Harbortown Marina. Thank goodness for radar, chartplotters, and depth finders. I have a whole new respect for mariners that navigated without these modern tools.