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This is where Orca normally hangs out ... beneath the cool shade of the boathouse that is so critical to her survival. Twice a day she rests in the pluff mud at low tide, and twice a day she rises with high water. Regardless of the tide or wind, Orca is kept in the center of the boathouse by four weighted lines that run through pulleys and four fixed lines.
Ironically and happily, high tide in our creek was lower than low tide during Hurricane Floyd. This oddity was caused by the storm's counter-clockwise winds, which just happened to push water ashore at low tide and then sweep it away at high tide, as its center moved north of Charleston but parallel to the coast.
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