Bob and I set sail this morning with Express Watersports and about 12 other people on a 1.5 hour Dolphin Watch cruise from the Murrells Inlet Harbor. It was a beautiful day for a cruise, and we saw lots of dolphins (although successfully photographing them is a whole other matter).
We did get lots of good pics of Murrells Inlet (the actual inlet not the town) as we sailed through that into the Atlantic Ocean. We also got a good view of much of the Grand Strand of beaches and the many large, lovely beach homes built along the coast. All of these multi-million dollar homes are required to have hurricane insurance, and that insurance does not cover anything on the ground level. You’ll see that most of the houses are built on stilts, but that still leaves the garage and its contents uncovered.
where we checked in for the cruise
the tour narrator, on the main deck
which used to have real goats but now just has fake ones
a community across the water from Murrells Inlet
where we move out of the bay and into the ocean
to help protect the inner harbor
Once we got into the Atlantic across from some of the oceanside beach communities between Garden City and Myrtle Beach, we were able to catch glimpses of a number of dolphin in various pods around our boat. Unfortunately, for these slow-fingered photographers, they don’t pause their swimming to pose. The following shots are the best we could do, but they were fun to watch.
and one of me missing the shot
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