Day 2 Stranded in Beaufort

We spent all day in Beaufort, SC since the marina is closed and we are out of gas. It was terrible weather. We had a tornado watch until 3:00PM and the water was very rough.

This was the weather map in the morning.

We had bad weather all day. For a real picture of what we saw, here you go:

Well, we were stuck in Beaufort, but we still had fun, Here we are toasting the good fortune of being together on a day like today:

The sun finally came out around 4:00P.M. We went for a walk and stumbled into the only open establishment in Beaufort, SC on Christmas Day: Hemingway's. After a short period of time we had a few more best friends. One in particular, Sarah, or Ema, or Emma, or Emerald invited us to her mother's house for dinner. We accepted the invitation, and after an interesting drive in the 80's Caddy we arrived to a wonderful accepting house and family that welcomed us as their own. The menu included crab stuffed pork tenderloin, macaroni and cheese, peas, some great bread and of course; crab clusters. The hospitality was the best. We cannot believe that a delay in Beaufort would end up in such a wonderful experience from people that do not even know us. Thank you very much.

As a side note, I realized that the Garmin Chartplotter would only accept route names up to 13 characters. Therefore, I now place the ICW or OUT portion of the route at the beginning of the route name. You would think that the software would have notified me of the fact it only recognizes the first 13 characters. So the one day delay was good for something.