Rain basically all day, growing harder at night. To clarify, the temperature drops but is still probably in the mid-70s, so it feels warm and very humid even when not raining.
Ed and Susan drove on this free day, this time to Calabash, a small coastal town just across the border into North Carolina. Calabash is famous for its shrimp, supposedly wild rather than ranched. We tested it at Ellas and found it to be superb, particularly fried; the sautéed shrimp (my order) less so. (Incidentally, so far on this trip we have always been given the choice of sweetened or unsweetened iced tea. At Ellas we were served large glasses of excellent iced tea, with a full pitcher for refills.)
Although it wasn’t raining hard, the power went out while we were eating causing us no problem, other than the minor one of having to pay with cash on leaving. Traffic lights were also out but eventually we wound our way around some back roads and took the freeway to Conway, an old county seat in inland South Carolina. The lady in the visitor center over-oriented us and we set out on a river-front walk in a light drizzle, checked out the old courthouse, a cemetery, and a couple art galleries. A nice old town with an interesting river front. It might have been fun to take the river tour.
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