Photo taken at Bluffton Oyster Company on May 21.
It was a difficult opening day for shrimpers yesterday. The weather was messy and some boats did not even leave the docks. Some trawled at Bridgefoot, next to the bridge in the Harbor River, but they didn't catch much. The weather was so rough at Bridgefoot that one smaller boat capsized. So you can imagine how rough it was in the outside waters.
There was another casualty of the weather a couple of days ago. A New York/Florida head boat was tied up at the waterfront park, and I asked them what was up. They got caught up in that subtropical storm, and a big 20 foot wave hit them from the side, and the impact caused the window in the opposite side to bust out. The lazaret kept coming open, too, so they had to send someone down to the stern to secure it. They were glad to make it out in one piece. The name of the boat was Viking Sun. They have room for 40 and can go out deep sea fishing for up to four days. They are in Tarpon Springs for the winter and Long Island for the summer. There's not much in the way of a head boat industry here in the Lowcountry, so that business model always fascinates me.
