Charleston to Georgetown
I think today's blog is going to be long. We were in Charleston for three days doing tourist stuff and then today started moving again.
We also got to see a dolphin actively feeding in the shallows..
It's supposed to storm tomorrow. Hopefully it will be short lived. Glad to be tied to a dock tonight. Will see tomorrow how far we can go in the conditions. We have a long ways to go in the next couple of days to make a flight for Bailey back to Michigan. (Headed to Wilmington NC).
On Easter we visited a big church in Charleston. One of the biggest in the country and it was a mob scene. Fun, but tons of people.
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Then we went to Boone Hall Plantation. Lots of movies filmed here. North and South, Roots come to mind.
We love history lessons. Boone Hall was a slave owning plantation on land granted by the king of England. Five owners later it's a very busy tourist destination. They grow lots of different crops and have lots of stuff to learn about the history of the plantation, slavery, after slavery, farming in the area. Very interesting.
They had a brick building facility here so even the slave quarters were built from brick.
(From Roots).
And of course beautiful gardens as well. (These came after slavery and several owners)
The kids brought me ebike parts so I tried to fix my bike. Typical Chinese stuff two bikes in the same batch have different controllers and totally different wiring schemes.
No bueno even with an electrical engineer son in law to offer advice. Ordering more parts....
I got it to work ....briefly and then when I put everything in the cases.... No workie.
The next day we shuttled to downtown Charleston to visit old town. (French Quarter)
Pineapples are a symbol of friendship here so you see them everywhere.
Lots of buildings from the 1600s and 1700s here. With lots of history.. too many stories to tell...
Slave trading (auction) houses and all....there's a sad history here when it comes to human rights..
We shopped in the market for knick knacks and then went to Hymans for seafood for lunch. (On top twenty five restaurants to visit in the world list it's the #2 US restaurant. It was good. And we met the current (4th generation) Mr Hyman.
We sat at a table that was previously occupied by Mel Gibson, Michael Phelps, the governor of S Carolina and Sarah Jessica Parker (not all at the same time..)
It seems like everyone famous has eaten at this place...
The food was fantastic.
Aaron and Bailey went for dinghy rides up and down rivers and channels in the area two different evenings. They had fun and it gave them some alone time.
Went sent Aaron off to fly back to GR at 3:30am and went back to bed....
Then left 8am to continue our journey....
We cruised past Ft.Sumter
And into the Intracoastal Waterway where it is called the lowlands.
The variation in elevation from above water to below water is .... Negligible. Lots of shallow channels in this section of waterway.
Sometimes TOO shallow. This one got us.
For the first time we ran aground and got stuck. The bottom was mostly silt and muck so nothing broke....
But we ended up calling Townbost US to pull us off.. Every time the tide lifted us off the shoal the wind and current would push us further on.... Not a good situation.
But the Townboat freed us after a 90 minute wait ... These places are remote so it takes a while to get to them. Fortunately I have a prepaid agreement with them so it doesn't cost me anything to call for help. It just paid for itself....
We saw our first rotating floating bridge today. It's basically a barge that is exactly as wide as the distance between the shores and they spin it into place and drop the ramps and it's a bridge.... Then they spin it back to one side for boats to get through.
Bailey got to get some sun finally and do some reading.
It's a rough life on the loop, can you tell?
We finally arrived in Georgetown with intent to anchor. This lowlands slop isn't very solid (think muck). An anchor won't hold. I gave up after a couple of hours trying to anchor and we called a marina and moved over there.. $200 (125 for slip, 7 for power, 80 for dinner. :). more than free.... But we had to have a place to stay. And we wanted to visit the town.
Georgetown is a cute little town with great food and quaint shops and beautiful old historical homes.
69 miles today. We made descent time after getting unstuck.. Burned more fuel doing it but got up on plane a bit and moved along. We had places to be and things to do..
Staying at the Georgetown Landing Marina tonight which is tied to a Hampton Inn and a mile from town.. All the marinas in town are full and the anchorages were busy and we couldn't get a good hold after hours of trying.... So we moved around the peninsula to a marina outside of town...
Goodnight all!
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