Well, it looks like one, maybe two bays in that particular frame. I have spent a couple of hours trying to find information on this Wando formation without much luck. Lot's of references to this formation without much in the way of something the layman could use......like how big it is; how far inland, etc. Would appreciate some help with that.
HERE is another frame just up the coast near the Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal that shows several more "bays". Whether or not they are in the "Wando" is a mystery to me.
Something else strikes me and that is, the bays further southwest, and just west of what appears to be the Founders Club at St James(golf club???), while not parallel with the southern coastline, are far from perpindicular to the coast. That in itself doesn't necessarily negate Renfields arguments, since I can't tell the "lay of the land" from the satellite pics. BUT, they have the same orientation as the rest of the bays.
Thanks for following up on this. I hand intended to get back to this "project" but other things always seem to pop up.
They may not be perpendicular to the current coast, but remember, long ago, the sea level was higher, and the coastline was different than it is today.
Markewich, H. W., and William Markewich. 1994. An Overview of Pleistocene and Holocene Inland Dunes in Georgia and the Carolinas--Morphology, Distribution, Age, and Paleoclimate U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin #2069.
p. 25. While studying the Pleistocene fluvial and marine stratigraphy of the Cape Fear River valley, Markewich and Soller (1983) and Soller (1988) suggested that Carolina bays formed between 60 ka and 200 ka, thus supporting Frey's (1951) estimate of 100 ka for Singletary Lake, a large bay in the Cape Fear River valley. Soller (1988) considered it probable that some of the older dunes [poster's note: the authors are referring here to large, amorphous or dune-and-kettle type dunes on the northeastern terraces of coastal blackwater streams, not to bay rims] were formed contemporaneously with the Carolina bays, and that the younger dunes [poster's note: these "younger dunes" include bay rims] greatly postdated the bays, and that some dunes were as young as 5 ka.
This dune dating makes sense to me. While working in Marlboro County, SC, I found an Indian artifact about 3 feet down in one of those "younger dunes" along the Great Pee Dee River, which allowed me to date the dune to around 4500 BC.