" When Pigs Fly"

Charleston gets 5 stars from both of us.  We really enjoyed riding our bikes around town.  The water taxi made it easy to get across the harbor but next time we’ll choose a marina on the other side and save the $20 a day for the taxi.  At Fort Sumter we heard about a good place to eat called “Fleet Landing”.  Great food and nice atmosphere. 

Fort Sumter

This is a replica of the Hunley.  Read the plaque below

Charleston has a unique architecture.

  The front door leads to a porch that then leads to parts of the house.  

We saw these flags around town.  Finally asked a local what they were for.  Apparently some of the citizens of Charleston are not in favor of having a cruise ship docking in their fair city.  This is supposed to represent Carnival Cruise line.  

Explored the ships at Patriot Point

Recipe and provisions for Chocolate Chip cookies

The Captain is checking out the A6A he worked on during the Vietnam War

Part of the museum at Patriot Point.  

Storm brewing as we got ready to leave Charleston

We’ve been busy since we left Charleston but not much of it has been boating.  We made it to Myrtle Beach in two days from Charleston.  The biggest excitement for this leg of the trip was that we finally saw alligators!  There was a whole bunch of them together in one spot on the river.  After looking for them all these months it kind of caught us by surprise.  The Captain turned the boat around so we could get a better look and catch some pics. 

Alligators!

South Carolina marsh lands

Harborwalk Marina, Georgetown, SC

We got in to Osprey Marina at Myrtle Beach after an easy second day cruise. Osprey is kind of out in the middle of nowhere with regard to Myrtle Beach, and it’s a little rustic.  We are docked on the outer most pier and the marina furnishes a golf cart to get in to the main marina for those of us on the three boats out there.  That sounds good but our experience in the short time we were there was that the cart wasn’t available a lot of the time.  The walk wasn’t all that bad but it was a gravel path through lots of vegetation. Our boat neighbors said they had seen an alligator in the water by the dock and every time I walked that gravel path I remembered we had been told if attacked to go for the eyes.  I had my keys ready. 

 

The night before we left Tropical Storm Andrea brought some wind and rain.  We filled  two 5-gallon buckets of water on the fly bridge  

We left the boat on 6/7/13 and drove home.  Many times we drove over bridges we had passed under in our earlier boating days.  It was fun to think about what we were doing when we were last in that location.  Chattanooga particularly held lots of memories.  It was our first big adventure, back when I was a novice boater and the Captain was just beginning to use his now well tuned navigation skills. 

We’ll plan to leave home again next week and head south, so the saga will continue in another week or so. 

See ya on the water