Meeting New and Old Friends

October 31, 2011, Mon.  “Halloween”

We left Osprey Marina around 8:20 am after a nice 5 days. We’ve always liked Osprey, so protected. We left Banshee there to come home in 2009. A nice marina with nice people. One couple we met Joy and Hans are leaving their boat at Osprey for the winter and going home to Massachusetts’s, then coming back in the spring to head to the Bahamas. They had a car and took us to the CVS and food store. We met Ted and Sally on Amici a 44’ DeFever also. They’re heading to the west coast of Florida. Of course everyone we meet we give them our boat card and tell them to call when they’re in the area if they need a ride to the stores. If everyone calls, Bob will be running a taxi service, considering the amount of cards we’ve given out so far this trip, but that’s a good thing, getting to see everyone again. Our friends Barb and Ken on Plumpuppet came in on Sat. with their friends Katja and Geoff on Blue Planet. It was great spending time together. We had a lot of laughs. We met Barb and Ken in 2008 at Deltaville Va. when we took Banshee south. We’ve kept in touch and were excited to hear that they were coming south from Vermont this year. We’ll be meeting again in Charleston in a couple days.

November 2, 2011, Wed.

Today we left Boat Shed Marina in Georgetown, S.C. at 7:30 to go to Charleston. We stayed there two days. The last time we were here with Banshee, we walked into town, but it was dark and we just walked to the Rice Paddy restaurant with Norm and Nancy from True Loev. It was a nice restaurant, but not casual. When we walked in this time, we noticed there’s not much in stores, but a lot of other restaurants. We were going to eat at The River Walk Tuesday night, but we went to the Independent Fish Market to get fresh shrimp for Barb and Ken an ended up buying some for ourselves. Bob cooked the shrimp with pasta, garlic and herbs. It was very good and a lot cheaper @ $7.99 a pound for large.
We’ve been passing True Loev on the waterway this year and met up with them in Osprey Marina. It’s funny how we keep seeing the same boats as we did with Banshee. So many people do this every year.