Charleston County Parks, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, announces the return of three Yappy Hours at James Island County Park. Pooches and owners are invited for an evening of live music, drinks and off-leash fun. First Yappy Hour is April 21st.
Click link for Yappy Hour: A Party in the Dog Park this Spring!
Coastal Carolinians are very aware of the dangers of “pluff mud” that is exposed with the tidal extremes. The small coastal creeks and waterways are so inviting to small craft explorers and while the pluff mud may look firm, but it is dangerous for humans and pets. Recently a St. Bernard fell off a pier at low tide and was saved only by giving the dog a large flat cushion to climb upon. The experience left the frightened dog exhausted.
Kayakers trapped for hours in chest-deep mud as tide rose around them, NC rescuers say – The State
The State
Charleston County Parks, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is proud to announce a new yoga program beginning in April.
New Sunrise Yoga program coming to Charleston County Parks in April
Click Here To View the South Carolina Cruisers Net Marina Directory Listing For Cooper River Marina
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Cooper River Marina
Wine Down Wednesday series returns for Spring 2022. Wine, live music and food trucks at Old Towne Creek County Park. Charleston County Parks is A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR!
[WEST ASHLEY] – Charleston County Parks is excited to bring back a spring full of Wine Down Wednesdays at Old Towne Creek County Park! Take a much-needed “hump day” break and enjoy Wine Down Wednesday on March 16, March 30, April 13 and April 27 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Wine Down Wednesday is a family friendly event where guests can enjoy live music while exploring this unique county park off Old Towne Road in West Ashley. Admission fees also cover wine and a commemorative wine glass. At each event, two food trucks will also be on site with items available for purchase.
The Spring 2022 Wine Down Wednesday music and food lineup is:
Admission for Wine Down Wednesday is $20 per person in advance, and $25 the day of the event.
Guests are encouraged to bring their own chairs, tables and blankets. Dogs are welcome, but must remain on a leash at all times. If an event is canceled by Charleston County Parks, a refund will be provided. Outside alcohol is prohibited. Outside food is allowed.
Old Towne Creek County Park is located in West Ashley off Old Towne Road and is open for special events only. Wine Down Wednesday is a great opportunity for the public to be able to explore and enjoy this site. Old Towne Creek features 67 acres of beautiful open fields complemented by groves of live oak trees. The park will undergo construction later in 2022.
For more information on Wine Down Wednesday, or to register for this event, visit CharlestonCountyParks.com. This event is brought to you by your Charleston County Parks.
Owned by the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) and only open currently for special events, Old Towne Creek County Park is located at 1400 Old Towne Road, Charleston, SC 29407. The mission of CCPRC is to improve the quality of life in Charleston County by offering a diverse system of park facilities, programs and services. The large park system features over 11,000 acres of property and includes six regional parks, a skate park, three beach parks, four seasonally-lifeguarded beach areas, three dog parks, two landmark fishing piers, three waterparks, 19 boat landings, a climbing wall, a challenge course, an interpretive center, a historic plantation site, an equestrian center, cottages, a campground, a marina, as well as wedding, meeting and event facilities. The park system also offers a wide variety of recreational services – festivals, camps, classes, programs, and more. For more information on CCPRC, call 843-795-4386, or visit CharlestonCountyParks.com.
Images courtesy Charleston County Parks. High-resolution photos available upon request
Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission / 861 Riverland Drive / Charleston, SC 29412 / (843) 795-4386
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Charleston County Parks, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, proudly introduces a 5K trail race series held at some of its most treasured parks for trail runners and walkers.
Charleston County Parks debuts 5K trail race seriesExplore the Lowcountry’s best trails in 2022
Sarah Reynolds
Public Information Coordinator Charleston County Park &
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The Charleston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for 15 navigation projects along the South Carolina coast, stretching from Little River Inlet near the North Carolina border to Port Royal Harbor on South Carolina’s southern coast.
USACE Charleston District survey team helps maintain South Carolina waterways – Army.mil
Army.mil
Our thanks to Ted Ariska for posting this article in Save South Carolina’s Anchorages.
Boats are being abandoned on SC’s shores. Why? And what’s being done about them?
Island Packet
The problem is NOT owners abandoning their boats. The problem is typical government bureaucracy unable to take charge, FINE the most recent owners of these boats AND make THEM pay for removal. Just complaining about abandoned boats does not effect a solution.
A spooky South Carolina legend for Halloween!
South Carolina’s ghostly Gray Man legend offers lessons in hurricanes and shared stories
Post and Courier
Wounded Nature-Working Veterans, a nonprofit group, organized Wednesday’s cleanup, working with the Coast Guard and DNR crews to clear five vessels from the Intracoastal Waterway. About 15 derelicts still remain in Horry County’s ICW.
Wounded Nature-Working Veterans is a group of veterans, non-veterans and active duty military personnel run by Captain Rudy Socha in the Charleston area. The non-profit volunteer organization is working to cleanup, preserve and protect our coastal environment, particularly from derelict vessels.
Hunt the owners down and force them to pay all fees required to clean up "their mess".
Perhaps allow a community group to assist and make it like a treasure hunt.
Wounded Nature-Working Veterans is a group of veterans, non-veterans and active duty military personnel run by Captain Rudy Socha, a former Marine turned conservationist. The non-profit volunteer organization is working to cleanup, preserve and protect our coastal environment, particularly from derelict vessels.
Results from the cleanup!
Wounded Nature-Working Veterans
This dataset contains mapped boundaries of intertidal oyster reefs and washed shell deposits found along the SC coast. Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for this information.
This dataset contains mapped boundaries of intertidal oyster reefs and washed shell deposits found along the SC coast. Reefs were mapped through a combination of automated and manual techniques using 4-band (blue, green, red, near-infrared) digital orthophotos with a theoretical ground resolution of 0.25 meters. These photos were taken from 2003-2006 and can be downloaded. The project area covered those sections of the SC coastal zone where oysters had historically been mapped by the SC Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) in the 1980’s. The area spans 122 USGS quarter quadrangles (DOQQs).
Sixty of the mapped DOQQs were ground-truthed by boat to assess accuracy. The initial mapping process met the overall minimum accuracy requirements of the project (80% correct classification) and was completed through a joint effort between Photo Science Inc. and SCDNR. Since 2006, low-altitude helicopter photography (see photo below) has been used to edit and update the initial data product. In 2016, 18.5% of the mapped oysters had been updated using helicopter photography. Edits and improvements to this data product are ongoing, and this dataset will be periodically updated.
A link is included below for a table that lists initial accuracy and editing status data by DOQQ. Accuracy scores listed were calculated for the initial product and do not reflect the results of low-altitude helicopter photography editing, so these scores should be considered to be the minimum level of accuracy for the edited areas. Areas covered and analyzed by low-altitude helicopter photographs can be considered to have the highest degree of accuracy. DOQQs that have not been edited by SCDNR should be used with caution. Due to variations in image quality and visibility of oysters, some localized areas may not be as accurate as reported values. In particular, some of the oyster flats with sparse or patchy oyster coverage were difficult to map. Instructions and links are provided below for access to the data and associated metadata.
SC Intertidal Oyster Reefs Map Application
SCDNR_Oyster2015.zip (33mb) ESRI ArcGIS v10.3 File Geodatabase
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| SC Intertidal Oyster Reefs | Oyster2015Live | SCDNR_Oyster2015Live.html |
| SC Oyster Shell Deposits | Oyster2015Wash | SCDNR_Oyster2015Wash.html |
Available data set is subject to change and will be updated periodically.
Metadata about the editing status: SCDNR_Oyster2015_metadata_table.pdf
DOQQQ imagery is available at the following link, DOQQQ Imagery
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More watercraft were involved in crashes along the Intracoastal Waterway in Myrtle Beach than anywhere else in the state last year, according to a 2020 report from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
Intracoastal Waterway in Myrtle Beach leading state in boat crashes, data shows
WBTV.com/news
Safety concerns increase as more boaters enjoy the Intracoastal Waterway | WPDE
wpde.com
We made the mistake, while traveling north on the ICW, of passing through the Myrtle Beach section on a Sunday in April. It was awful. We are in a 36foot sailboat. There were many many jet skis buzzing past, swerving in and out. Power boats passing us very closely! It was the most dangerous part of our trip.
Susan Woods Bamonto don’t forget the over loaded boats and some towing people on tubes…and the day started so beautifully.
I'm not surprised the Myrtle Beach area ICW leads in boat crashes. We see all kinds of craziness whenever we travel through there and I have a photo that says it all.
The Lowcountry Maritime School of Charleston, SC was organized to promote and support their primary mission: educating youth through boatbuilding and maritime skills.
Click here for LMS August 2021 Newsletter
This photo of reckless boating on the ICW in Myrtle Beach was submitted in support of comments made by Phil Barbalace regarding Myrtle Beach Leads State in Intracoastal Waterway Boat Crashes. Thank you for sharing Phil! One picture says more than a thousand words.
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Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for this report on a continuing debate over oyster farming and anchoring rights. See LNM: Oyster Beds to be Installed, Steamboat Creek and Oyster Farming Dispute Again in the News.
About 6 months ago, I made a request to Kyle Ward of NOAA, to consider charting the mariculture area in Steamboat Creek (south of Charleston) as establish in the USCG Local Notice to Mariners District 7 Week 49 of 2020.
Click Here To View the Cruisers Net South Carolina Anchorage Directory Listing For Steamboat Creek
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Steamboat Creek
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Above-normal tropical activity, new ‘normals’ in the Atlantic and steering robotic surfboards into hurricanes.
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Good morning, readers.
Hurricane Wire is back and ready to bring you details of everything brewing in the Atlantic basin this season.
Experts believe we could be in for another busy tropical season but nothing quite as bad as what was experienced in 2020. Last year was a record-breaking one with 30 named storms, 13 hurricanes and six major hurricanes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does not believe this hurricane season will be as active as the last.
In a 2021 Atlantic hurricane outlook released last month, NOAA’s acting administrator Ben Friedman said the agency projects a 70% probability of 13 to 20 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes.
This may seem like quite a bit of projected tropical activity, but the baseline of “normal” changed in 2021 when meteorologists updated the 30-year period they use to determine average weather benchmarks. Moving forward, an average Atlantic hurricane season will have 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
So technically, NOAA’s predictions for this season are considered normal. Our Chloe Johnson reports that new weather benchmarks are reflecting a more active Atlantic season. However, scientists still disagree on whether climate change will lead to more hurricanes over the long term. Read more about that here.
Researchers with the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University predict there will be 35 days in which a hurricane is active this season, and nine days in which a major hurricane is active. Their forecast for the 2021 hurricane season nearly mirrors the Project’s early prediction for the 2020 season. But last year exceeded expectations in many ways.
Only time will tell what is in store for the Atlantic this year. So for now, let’s just stay vigilant.
Conditions: Nothing is spinning in the Atlantic, but the National Hurricane Center has issued advisories on tropical depression Blanca located in the eastern Pacific. This is not a concern for South Carolina as the depression is several hundred miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
Computer models: The Carolinas are expected to remain clear of threats for the foreseeable future.
Outlook: Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the Atlantic basin during the next five days.
From 1981 to 2010, there were, on average, 12.1 named storms, 6.4 hurricanes and 2.7 major hurricanes of Category 3 or above each year.
In the new period, 1991 to 2020, there were an average of 14.4 named storms, 7.2 hurricanes and 3.2 major hurricanes each year, according to data analyzed by Brian McNoldy, a senior researcher at the University of Miami.
On May 7, 2015, surf powered by a tropical depression lured a stand-up paddle boarder into the water on Isle of Palms. The storm would become Tropical Storm Ana, with wind gusts reaching 60 mph near Little River and Cherry Grove Beach. (File/Staff)
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