From duck calling to dog dock diving, Hundreds of families came out to Georgetown's historic district for the town's annual Winyah Bay Festival. The festival celebrates the seaport community's history of hunting and fishing with events like a duck calling contest.
The 525,000 acre Winyah Bay covers the drainage of the Black, Great Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Sampit and Waccamaw rivers, making it the third largest estuarine water system on the east coast.
New this year, a competition of dock diving for dogs. Pets are judged by how far they can jump to retrieve a toy. So think your dog could dock dive?
"Your dog needs to have a good toy drivea and your dog needs to at least like the water," says Nancy Akin with Dixie Dock Dogs. "If they have those two qualities chances are they can be a dock dog."
The festival is wrapping up for this year. It runs each year on a weekend in January from Friday to Sunday. Georgetown merchants also offer discounts to festival attendees.
