Arriving in Charleston we tied up inside the Mega-Dock, the long face dock that runs from the center of the picture to the top righthand corner. We were located about where that boat is shown coming from top right to bottom left . . . it was a long bike ride just to get off the dock.
We then rode our bikes down to Market Street and signed up for the Carriage Tour. Cannot recommend the Carriage Tour to anyone. You pay for the Tour, then after you are seated, captive in the carriage, the "City of Charleston" using a bingo ball machine that has only nine balls, selects the tour that your carriage will present. You may want the historic waterfront and receive the college tour . . . as we did. You could ride every day and never get the tour you wanted, it was a gamble and we lost. We later took an auto tour as a part of our Plantation Tour . . . and we rode our bikes everywhere!
The Market Street area sells all sorts of items for Charleston including the sweetgrass baskets that are woven by the Gullah, the low country africian-americans.
Fort Sumter can be seen from the Battery in Historic Charleston. The Fort was built by the United States after the War of 1812 and was still unfinished when Major Robert Anderson moved his 85-man garrison from Fort Moultrie, which Anderson felt was indefensible, to Fort Sumter the day after Christmas, 1860. April 11, 1861, Brig.Gen Pierre G.T. Beauregard, commander of the Confederate Troops at Charleston, demanded that his former West Point artillery instructor, Anderson, surrender the fort. Anderson refused. On the 12th Beauregard opened fire and by that afternoon Anderson surrendered. No one on either side had been killed during the engagement. On the 14th Major Anderson and his garrison departed the fort and boarded a ship for transport to New York.
For the next adventure we were off to Middleton Place, a Charleston Plantation.
On our way to Middleton we passed through Magnolia Plantation which also had beautiful grounds.
The grounds at Middleton Place were magnificant. This is the Reflection Pool which was positioned behind the gardens.
The front guarden and lawn rolling down to the Ashley River.
The rice mill pond on the south side of the lawn and residence.
Plantation peacock showing his grand feathers.
Some kind sailors passing through Charleston were unable to take full advantage of the tour tickets they purchased and gave them to us. We then the next day toured the Heyward-Washington House - 1772 and the gardens.
Bonnie was able to relax in the garden for a few minutes while we waited for the house tour to commence.
After church services at the Citadel Square Baptist Church and lunch at Justine's Kitchen; Charlie prepares notes and reviews the weather in preparation for Monday's underway time.
Sunrise over Charleston as we go with the tide, outbound the Ashley River.
An overnight at the Myrtle Beach Yacht Club where SONATA got a drink (some 319 gallons of diesel) and we rested, we were then off to North Carolina waters.
A long day, but one in which you could look from the ICW out through a sound into the Atlantic. We had nice winds from the South and a calm day for in excess of 100 miles of travel.
There is sharing in the "driving" and some can complete their tasks with just a little easy "foot-work".
We cruised past Camp Lejeune without incident.
We anchored at Swansboro and the next day we were off for Beaufort, North Carolina.
Swansboro to Beaufort, an overnight, met more loopers starting the loop; then we were off early the next day, the 9th, for "Little" Washington, North Carolina. Only a few hundred miles from completion of our loop trip and Chapter One in the cruising experience.
Arriving in Charleston we tied up inside the Mega-Dock, the long face dock that runs from the center of the picture to the top righthand corner. We were located about where that boat is shown coming from top right to bottom left . . . it was a long bike ride just to get off the dock.
We then rode our bikes down to Market Street and signed up for the Carriage Tour. Cannot recommend the Carriage Tour to anyone. You pay for the Tour, then after you are seated, captive in the carriage, the "City of Charleston" using a bingo ball machine that has only nine balls, selects the tour that your carriage will present. You may want the historic waterfront and receive the college tour . . . as we did. You could ride every day and never get the tour you wanted, it was a gamble and we lost. We later took an auto tour as a part of our Plantation Tour . . . and we rode our bikes everywhere!
The Market Street area sells all sorts of items for Charleston including the sweetgrass baskets that are woven by the Gullah, the low country africian-americans.
Fort Sumter can be seen from the Battery in Historic Charleston. The Fort was built by the United States after the War of 1812 and was still unfinished when Major Robert Anderson moved his 85-man garrison from Fort Moultrie, which Anderson felt was indefensible, to Fort Sumter the day after Christmas, 1860. April 11, 1861, Brig.Gen Pierre G.T. Beauregard, commander of the Confederate Troops at Charleston, demanded that his former West Point artillery instructor, Anderson, surrender the fort. Anderson refused. On the 12th Beauregard opened fire and by that afternoon Anderson surrendered. No one on either side had been killed during the engagement. On the 14th Major Anderson and his garrison departed the fort and boarded a ship for transport to New York.
For the next adventure we were off to Middleton Place, a Charleston Plantation.
On our way to Middleton we passed through Magnolia Plantation which also had beautiful grounds.
The grounds at Middleton Place were magnificant. This is the Reflection Pool which was positioned behind the gardens.
The front guarden and lawn rolling down to the Ashley River.
The rice mill pond on the south side of the lawn and residence.
Plantation peacock showing his grand feathers.
Some kind sailors passing through Charleston were unable to take full advantage of the tour tickets they purchased and gave them to us. We then the next day toured the Heyward-Washington House - 1772 and the gardens.
Bonnie was able to relax in the garden for a few minutes while we waited for the house tour to commence.
After church services at the Citadel Square Baptist Church and lunch at Justine's Kitchen; Charlie prepares notes and reviews the weather in preparation for Monday's underway time.
Sunrise over Charleston as we go with the tide, outbound the Ashley River.
An overnight at the Myrtle Beach Yacht Club where SONATA got a drink (some 319 gallons of diesel) and we rested, we were then off to North Carolina waters.
A long day, but one in which you could look from the ICW out through a sound into the Atlantic. We had nice winds from the South and a calm day for in excess of 100 miles of travel.
There is sharing in the "driving" and some can complete their tasks with just a little easy "foot-work".
We cruised past Camp Lejeune without incident.
We anchored at Swansboro and the next day we were off for Beaufort, North Carolina.
Swansboro to Beaufort, an overnight, met more loopers starting the loop; then we were off early the next day, the 9th, for "Little" Washington, North Carolina. Only a few hundred miles from completion of our loop trip and Chapter One in the cruising experience.
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