I guess if you have to be somewhere to wait, Hilton Head is not a bad place.  We arrived here on Wednesday afternoon and will be staying at least through Monday.  In the photo above, Mark is checking out the water to see if he could go under the boat and scrape barnacles off the props.  That is one possibility for the slow progress we made coming to Hilton Head from Charleston.   Mark decided the water is just too dark, and then there are those alligators.  (Someone at a local golf course had his arm bitten off a few days ago and there are signs along all the bike paths to watch for them.)  Therefore, we have hired someone to come Monday morning to clean the bottom and scrape the barnacles off the props.  Mark has tried a number of other “fixes” but so far isn’t satisfied that we are going to get full power.

The tide is at le

ast five feet and there is a very strong river current where we are anchored.  All the boats swing around when the current comes in or goes out.  We get very close to the shore at low tide, but in the photo to the left, the water was still more than six feet deep under the dinghy.  It’s about 20 feet when we are swung out.  This was taken at slack tide.

Today we rode into town again to find a hardware store.  Then of course we stopped for a frappuccino.  The barrista had only seen us once and remembered our order.  Usually it takes several weeks.

We think we can ride our bikes to a local mall and a movie theater this weekend.  That is, if the rain stops.