September 5, 2021

Uneventful passage got us to Folly Beach in time to watch red sunset from the back balcony. Our own balcony faces northeast, with the sun rising in white glory after an odd and rather violent sleep. I was over-tired. Walked early toward Charleston. Beautiful brown boys setting up chairs. Families wading in and out of the waves. I gave myself a good soaking. My physical progress may be told by my walking twice as far as I ever did last year at one time, and coming back not out of exhaustion but because I was running out of beach. The sun might have been unbearable were one not knee deep in the water.