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  1. Beaufort, South Carolina
    This palmetto probably started as a weed in a crack in the parking lot. Ignored for too long, until people got emotionally attached, even fond of it. Sort of grew on them. So now, still awkward, it is allowed to stay. Protected even.

    Like me in relationships.






  2. Half Moon, Atlantic Ocean

    You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
    —Thomas Traherne, c. 1670




  3. I never saw a moor,
    I never saw the sea;
    Yet I know how the heather looks,
    And what a wave must be.
    —Emily Dickinson, 1864




  4. The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts-navigation.
    —Samuel Purchas, 1613




  5. Anchored in North Landing River Nature Preserve last night rowed along the banks of an oxbow in the river before breakfast.




  6. Sea Islands 300 : 07-A Ship of Comedians

    youtu.be/SDW-jV2dOdE?si=G5gVw-

    Video of the concert on the docks.

    Links to Chapters in the Series

    It’s almost full dark when I get back to the marina. From the shore I can see Doug has a boom light in the cockpit, playing guitar.

    We are tied up by the dinghy dock, where people come and go in zodiacs to their big yachts out in the mooring field. Some boats are too big for the docks. Many stop to ask questions and marvel that we travel so far in a boat so small.

    […]

    eyeinhand.com/2025/07/30/sea-i