- 66.9 miles
- 8 hours 16 minutes
- 8.7 mph average speed
- 7-10 mot winds
We spotted our first alligator swimming in the water as we were traveling to Georgetown.
Georgetown is a lovely town! We had a wonderful dinner at The River Room and delicious pastries from Indigo Bakery the next morning for breakfast.
We Ubered to Hopsawee Plantation which was built around 1740. and was one of the South’s major rice plantations.
The home is now a private residence with the owners only recently having moved out of the house. They run a lovely tea room on the property. There was a Sweetgrass Basket making class going on when we went there. While we had easily gotten an Uber to the plantation, getting one back to the marina was a different story. We tried for an hour or so before asking the plantation manager for assistance. He had just learned of a new “taxi” service in Georgetown and made arrangements to have us picked up. In the meantime, we decided to have a snack in the tea room. We had Pimento Cheese Biscuits and Okra Fritters along with tea that we sweetened with spoonfuls of simple sugar. They had a Tea Room cookbook in the gift shop which Ellen had to have and both of these recipes are included along with many other delectable looking things we look forward to trying.
We met Looper friends Karen and Rob from Off Leash at SoCo Grill for some wonderful “home cooking” before attending a play at the local theatre, the Strand Theatre. The play was “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s” which had opened on Broadway and closed just three days later.
Ellen broke down and got her gray roots covered at a darling salon named “Hairapy”. It was like being on the set of Steel Magnolias as everyone else in the salon was local so Ellen got her fill of what was going on in everyones’ lives and felt like she knew all of them by the time she left.
We had a great tour of the Rice Museum and Clock Tower. in The Old Market Building was built in 1842 after the previous building had been destroyed by fire the year before and was originally used a law court and jail. There is a wonderful collection of dioramas that explain the history of rice cultivation.
The Kaminski Hardware Building was also rebuilt in 1842. The Maritime Museum is now on the third floor and houses the Brown’s Ferry Vessel which was built in the early 1700’s and sunk around 1730. The vessel was discovered by divers n 1974. It is the oldest commercial vessel to have been discovered. in the southeastern United States. Remarkably, the vessel predates previous shipbuilding discoveries by about 50 years.
There is a wonderful collection of old ledgers from the hardware store.
We met a. lovely non-Looper couple at the marina, Bob and Laurel. They are traveling on a houseboat, Last Resort, to the Erie Canal where they will spend the summer. We enjoyed talking with them the night before we left and hearing stories of their travels, including being in two hurricanes.