Anchoring on Keowee

This weekend we did a bunch of cleaning: housework, cars, and pudgy, our little sailboat. Our motor boat is sitting on the trailer in the storage yard, luckily still free of ants (knock on wood). The storage yard is basically a gravel yard cut out of a piece of forest, which seems to want to retake the patch of land. It's full of weeds, poison ivy, and ants. Last year we found a whole colony of them parading around the boat. This year we're bug spraying the boat with the same stuff I use to spray around the house to keep the bugs out. So far, this seems to be working. Meanwhile, in soaring temperatures during our current heatwave, we were looking to cool off. Along with the house, the sailboat was also in need of a scrubdown. So armed with buckets, rags, and scrub brushes we headed out to the boat. Our sailing club has a work dock where you can dock your boat, grab the hose, and start scrubbing. After doing that in the midday sun (and 98F temperature) we were ready for some swimming. To do so we anchored by this little island in about 25 feet of water. The water was perfect! Not quite as bathtub-warm like it gets on Hartwell around July and not quite as cool as it was just last week. Although the ladder on the sailboat is rather wimpy and not quite as easy to get out of the water of as the power boat, it's still a decent way to get out in the sun and get wet.