A pleasant phenomenon is connected with Lake Waccamaw. On hot summer afternoons visitors on the northern bluff peer toward the southwest. Along about four o'clock - if it is on time - a line of dark blue extending all the way across the lake may be seen advancing. The blue wave rolls across the lake, finally breaking upon the northern shore as a slapping first wave. But before the water itself has been pushed across the lake, the wind has reached land and enveloped the town of Waccamaw in a cool constant breeze. It ordinarily continues throughout the afternoon and the night, dying down in the early morning hours of the next day. It is said that this breeze from the south will not fail more than four or five days in the course of a season.