Horry County Museum, Conway SC

In April 2014 the Horry County Museum began work on a 4,400 gallon freshwater aquarium that was featured on Animal Planet’s show "Tanked".

The aquarium is the focal point of the Horry County Museum. Visitors can view the living natural history exhibit and encounter a variety of freshwater fish that are found in local rivers and lakes.

Paul and I make a visit to the Museum last week and found it very interesting.

 

 

Paul taking a closer look at the tank.

 

A Fish Story for a Beautiful morning..

 

 

.“Arn? Narn.” It is said to be the shortest conversation in Newfoundland. It’s also a prescient description of its culture’s future. Two fishing boats in a harbor are approaching one another, one departing, the other returning. The captain of the departing boat yells out to the captain of the returning boat, “Arn?” The other captain’s reply, “Narn.” Translated, “Any fish?” “No fish.” And that is the story.



Earlier this week on Surfside Beach, this was the scene from our deck as we enjoyed our coffee.  Life is simple here at the beach.  

 

 

 

A man, who just happens to be a fellow Newfoundlander, sitting on his bait bucket waiting for a fish to take his bait.  Then along comes a guy and the first fish tale just might be told.

One can only assume that this is a local fishing boat out for a morning's catch and not a fishing warden coming to see what is up.  (While watching from our deck, we can weave any story we wish.)

 

Then along comes a fellow with "the boys" who we know is a fellow Canadian neighbour.  Maybe, another tale be told.

 

Yet another joins the group.  

 

So as the story goes, “Arn? Sadly, Narn.”  But there is always another day.

An Afternoon at Georgetown, SC

Earlier this week we decided to take a drive to the Georgetown area which is about 20 miles from Surfside Beach. It was a sunny day with little wind so it was a nice afternoon for a walk along the marina.

My sister and brother-in-law are visiting, and being sailors, they were interested in looking at the sail boats in the marina and having a chat with a local sailor.

This was one of the larger boats at the marina. It was very impressive.


A photo with my sister.


We stopped into the River Room Restaurant to see their menu for another time, and took a few minutes to enjoy their aquarium. The fish were quite colourful and the coral very unique. Since red is my favourite colour, the little red fish was most interesting to me.

There is a very nice fish market in Georgetown so we stopped there to buy a couple of pounds of fresh shrimp. When we got home, our brother-in-law made this awesome pasta for our dinner.

Yes, it was as delicious as it looks!