10/04/2024
This paddle is a fun 14.6 miles paddle going through multiple creeks, with a great lunch/rest stop in the middle of the paddle.
It actually starts at Sandy Island Landing. I am showing it as part of the Wacca Wache Marina page, because Wacca Wache Marina is the food stop for this paddle and it goes through the creeks in front of the marina.
It starts at Sandy Island and goes up the Waccamaw River. When the paddlers come out of the Sandy Island channel, they crossed over to the other side of the river and went upriver.
They pass Sandhole creek along the way. There is another paddle mentioned that explores Sandhole Creek on this page, in another post..
They continue upriver and bypasses the opening of Black Creek, which they will come down later. The paddlers go a little further into a waterway the cuts back over to the middle of Black Creek. Once they hit Black Creek they turn up Black Creek towards White Creek.
The paddlers go all the way up White Creek until they hit Waccamaw River. If you wanted to cut 1 1/2 miles of your paddle or if you are hungry, this is a good place to turn downriver to Wacca Wache Marine to enjoy a good meal.
Here the paddlers turn left into Vaux Creek to circle around Vaux Island. Once they finish the circle they headed to the Wacca Wache Marina.
Here is a link to the restaurant. https://waccawachemarina.com/walters-on-the-waterway/
When the paddlers left Wacca Wache Marina, they crossover over the top of Richmond Island to Cow House Creek and head down the creek and look for 4 x 4 wooden post to watch for on the right hand side that marks the entrance to the cut through (a picture of the post is shown below), that cuts Laurel Hill Island in half, and it will take you back over to White Creek. This waterway is not seen on google maps, so not some people do not know about it. When arriving at White Creek, turn left to go down the creek to Black Creek. After exiting Black Creek, the paddlers then head back to Sandy Island landing.
A 2nd trail has been added here because it was done in the same vicinity as the first paddle and paddler and decide if they want to mix the 2 paddles together or modify both them into a different trail.
The 2nd trail is another exploratory adventure where the trail explored a couple creeks and some of the Waccamaw River extensions near the Wacca Wache Marina as shown by the first map.
The paddle starts down Cow House Creek. The picture of the post is where a paddler can cut across via a channel to the middle of White Creek. This paddle continues down Cow House Creek back to the Waccamaw River.
It then turns right up an extension of the Waccamaw River, then makes a right to explore and extension. It then turns around and turns right to continue down the original Waccamaw River Extension.
Then it turns right up Black Creek towards White Creek. Just before White Creek it turns left until the end of Black Creek. Just before getting to the end of Black Creek, a log was seen just floating. It turn out to be a gator. Usually, i see what I thought was a gator and it turns out to be floating log. This gator was so large and not moving in the middle of the creek. I thought it was a log until a started to close to it and it sunk down under water. Logs don't do this!
The trail turns around and heads back to Wacca Wache Marina. When the main body of the Waccamaw River is reached, it continues upriver to Wacca Wache Marina and stays to the right of the Richmond Island.
Just before the Wacca Wache Marina, it turns up another small extension where some deer were seen. The rail then ends back at the Wacca Wache Marina.
Because the paddle was started about an hour before low tide and finished about an hour after low tide. The creeks were not explored as far as they could. If the paddle was done near hide tide., the paddler could have gone a lot further.
Unlike exploring where there are a lot of obstacles, like down trees and branches. This paddle did not any of those type of obstacles. Just grounding out because of low tide.
Click the link to see the Relive version of the trail.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vevYpeemQyq
A 3rd trail has been added to this post similar to the 1st trail but only 10.7 miles long.
Another loop trail that left Wacca Wacche Marina that is 16.1 miles long has been added to the end of the images.
If you display the image of the trail on a laptop screen and then scan the QR Code on the map with a smart phone and the AllTrails App is on the phone, the AllTrails map will be displayed on the phone and you will be able to navigate the trail using the app.
If you do not have the app on the smart phone, it will bring the map up via the AllTrails website.
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