Lots of pictures today, so we'll be brief...
The scenery is now starting to change a little as we make our way northward...we are seeing more trees now than we had been. But the tides and currents are still a part of our everyday trip planning. Both travel days, we had shallow spots that we needed to plan for, but all passed without incident. We left our friends on Act lll, Corkscrew and California Lady, as we were headed to Charleston and they were not. So for a few days, we are traveling solo.
We had a really nice anchorage at Steamboat Creek...another small dinghy dock made our puppy duty pretty simple. And we found our marina at Charleston to be fine, although not our favorite. It is a bit exposed to the wake of freighter as well as pleasure boat travel, so it is a bit rocky. But it has been fine. The highlight of our visit here was dinner with Rob's cousin Phyllis and her husband Joe. They came to the marina and picked us up, and then treated us to a fabulous meal...the single best meal we have had thus far on the trip! It was great to catch up with them, and we are very thankful they drove almost an hour each way to spend the evening with us...we had a wonderful time!
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| Sunrise at our anchorage at Steamboat Creek. |
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| Our slip at Charleston Maritime Center...as you can see we had some cloudy days here. Only a little rain. |
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| And a pirate ship came in for a visit...not sure what they were up to?? |
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| While we were out investigating what the pirates were up to, we found this tug... |
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| Waiting for... |
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| Our old friend MOL...the freighter who we passed in the shipping channel in Savannah (see last blog post). He evidently dropped off some containers in Savannah, and then made his way up here to Charleston. |
And now some shots of our day touring around downtown Charleston. Sandy's FitBit indicates that we walked over 5 miles...and were desperately in need of showers at days end!
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| Cute...outside of the Firehouse. |
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| Many of the houses that we saw dated to the early to mid 1700's...some really interesting architecture. |
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| Many of the houses (especially the larger ones) had very large yards and enclosed gardens behind the houses. You couldn't see most of them from the street, but those that we could peek at were remarkable. Beautiful, and much larger than you might think. |
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| A portion of a string of houses called Rainbow Row. Each house was painted a different pastel color, again dating from the 1700's. |
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| Sandy just couldn't get enough of the wonderful aroma we encountered all over town of the blooming Jasmine bushes... |
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