We left Price Creek around 10am and headed to McClellanville. McClellanville is a small fishing town in rural Charleston County, South Carolina. The population was 499 at the 2010 census. Today’s trip was only about eighteen miles and we were heading to a marina of sorts. It is not a marina in the sense of several boat slips, but it was a dock for shrimp boats, it sold fuel, and had a couple of boats tied to the dock. Our reason for stopping here was the history and it’s reputation for seafood. The first store in this town opened soon after the Civil War, and the village became the social and economic center for a wide area that produced timber, rice, cotton, naval stores, and seafoods. Incorporated in 1926, McClellanville became, and remains, best known for its shrimping fleet and seafood industries. Once we got close, I called and was directed where to dock along the only long dock they have.
Once we were secured, we took the bikes for a tour of the village. We saw an oak tree that is claimed to be one thousand years old, we biked to T. W. Graham and Company a popular and locally famous restaurant. They were open for carry out only and on our first pass it was quite busy. We came back and it still had a few people outside waiting, so we decided to place an order. We had a couple of beers while waiting for our food, then took our order back to the boat to eat our lunch. After eating, we got on the bikes again and stopped at a Livingston’s Bulls Bay Seafood shop and bought pickled shrimp, crab dip, and some raw shrimp to make dinner later. We dropped our purchases off at the boat and continued on our tour of the town. By dinner time, we got back and went about preparing the shrimp so we could have shrimp and rice with old bay and butter. Delicious!
Tomorrow we plan on going about twenty five miles to Georgetown, which is half-way between Myrtle Beach and Charleston…