Fun Times with Friends in Hilton Head, SC

We were planning to go to Beaufort, SC, today, but our friends Jim and Ruth Edwards and Joe and Sandy McConnell are vacationing in Hilton Head, SC, so we decided to go there and catch up with them.

We left Green Pond, SC, at 7:45 a.m. after spending some time looking at the charts and changing our destination. So glad we did! We saw lots of dolphins, one swimming along side of us for a while, but I was at the helm and Chuck was down below, so couldn’t get a picture.

We arrived around 2 p.m. and Chuck changed the oil while I took Jazzy for a long walk. We’re at Hilton Head Harbor RV Park, Marina and Resort. We’re at the end of the T head on the ICW and it’s fairly quiet here.

We went to Hudson’s Restaurant, Hilton Head’s most renowned seafood eatery on the water. Their seafood is from local fishermen and they serve 3,000 gallons of oysters, 70,000 pounds of shrimp and 250,000 raw oysters annually here.

I had the red snapper over red-skinned smashed potatoes and fresh spinach. It was awesome! Chuck had a steamed seafood combination of oysters, clams and shrimp. Yum!

We drove like teenagers crammed into a five-person car back to our marina. I sat on Chuck’s lap. Our friend, Chrissy, sent me a text while we were in the restaurant, so we called her on speaker phone from the car and we all talked. Good times with good friends.

I ran down to Sheet Music to grab some glasses and a bottle of wine to sit outside on the dock, but the no-see-ums had a different idea, so we called it a night.

Tomorrow: Anchorage somewhere south of Hilton Head

Sunrise leaving Green Pond, SC

The evasive dolphin. LOL.

Chuck adjusting lines on Sheet Music.

Hilton Head Harbor RV Resort Marina and Restaurant

Record shark catch here is 360 pounds.

Changing the oil

The sunset through the restaurant window.

Me and Chuck, Ruth & Jim Edwards and Sandy & Joe McConnell.