My last trip to Capers Island was canceled due to a tropical storm but I really want to go. I want to get a couple guys for an overnight to do it. Would love to go before it gets too cold. Let me know if you are up for it and get it together. I look forward to it! See you soon.
I took this paddle alone with the plan of going with my wife on Oct 11 in a day both ways. Not the difficult of a trip. My legs got fried but I learned that lesson… not a bad paddle and beautiful place to be at. This is a great start for those of you that are just getting in. The landscape is amazing and prepare for nature and you are good to go. We are there to help as we go. Those of you that have done this before, please speak up, make this a educational trip.
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Manta Ray 14’
My girlfriend and I are headed out there tomorrow through sunday. Staying on the south end, come on out!
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Where do you guys put in to paddle to Capers?
Most leave out of IOP landing. There are some other spots but that is usually the easiest and other options aren’t the best spots to leave your vehicles overnight. If you judge the tides right it is a fairly easy paddle in under 90 minutes. Absolutely one of the coolest spots in the Charleston area.
We’re stuck between Barack and a hard place. Hide their food stamps under their working boots.
Manta Ray 14’
What is the best way to go, outside the breakers on the ocean side or through the ICW to Capers inlet?
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson
Good fishing there too. Caught a 4ft bonnethead there!
“In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.” Ray Bergman
I did this trip years ago with a brother and his wife. We put in on the ocean front in beautiful, warm, calm weather and paddled to Capers outside the breakers. While we were there (one night) a front moved in and the weather turned wet, cold and windy. We paddled back via the inland waterways to the IOP Marina. When we got back my brother did a short jog to the car which we’d parked opposite the marina at the beachfront (53rd st?). We did this in SINKS. I’d want it to be pretty calm to load a SOT up for camping AND fishing and launch thru the breakers.
One fun thing was that we ran into Chris of Coastal Expeditions there with two journalists from Nat Geo Adventure Mag who were doing a piece on various outdoors spots. We came paddling into their camp area thru a dense fog and might have got our photos in the mag if the photographer could have gotten to his camera in time.