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David Mitchell
Sweet childhood memories!
Meanwhile after a week in the freezing fifties, we are back to normal. My car odometer reads 82 degrees outside. My lawn could use some sprinkling.
Good time for a walk on the dock.
May River at High tide - outer dock floats freely - with tele poles driven into river bed to hold it in place. A hinge at the inner end, and wheels on the outer end to adjust with the floating outer dock. You can tie a boat up to these docks (everywhere here in the "Low Country") and they simply float up and down with the dock. There are thousands of these docks up and down the SE coast.
May River at Low tide. - just the opposite - the outer dock drops with the tide and the walkway is in use at any level of the tide - steep or flat.
Our tide swings through it's cycle about every 6 hours and 12+ minutes. The total "swing" varies with the moon and the time of year from about 8 1/2 feet to almost 12 feet.
Pat Conroy was living here in Bluffton when he wrote "The Prince of Tides", which became my oldest daughter's inspiration to become a writer. The book or movie does not name Bluffton. The rumor I have always heard is that his local friends threatened to kill him if he gave away the name of the town. It is, in some ways, a magical little place. It is also rumored that the late Jonny Mercer (local part-time resident from Savannah) wrote "Moon River" about the May River here in town . It won the Oscar for best movie song in 1962.
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