Day 307, Friday April 25th
We are both up early after a very quiet night at the
dock. Julie starts out the morning
blogging, our dockage includes WiFi access, and Dawson runs through an
inspection of the boat after our last passage and does some planning for
tomorrow’s trip on the ICW .
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| Dawson at Battery Park waterfront Charleston |
Once Julie finishes the posting
our recent days, we start to plan our day in Charleston. We had a fair bit of info on things to do
after our trip in the night before, based on this information we decide on a
walking tour of the city and a trip on the free trolley, with extra actives as
we spot them. We get the marina shuttle
to drop us off at the South Battery and begin our day walking the Charleston
Seawall.
About 40% of Charleston is
reclaimed land with a large portion being below sea level. Global warming is a bad thing for Charleston.
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| Selfie with neat Charleston houses in background |
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| Historical house tour |
Around noon we determine it is time for lunch and stop at a
restaurant brew pub. Here we get the bad
news our walking tour has been cancelled as the minimum number of people had
not signed up, so we adjust our plans and sign up for a horse drawn carriage
tours. Our carriage tour is at 3 so we
take the free trolley ride and find out it is really the city bus but dressed
up like a trolley. Julie chats to one of
the passengers and she recommends that we do one of the city house tours which
is just along the bus route. Charleston
has 6 old home open to the public dating from the mid 1700 to the late 18th
century. The one we end up at is the Manigaul House which was constructed
in the 1780 by the family of the richest man in North America. It is a beautiful home with many period
pieces on display. The volunteer who
gives the tour does an excellent job of giving the history of the Manigault’s
along with the history of the house. If you
are in Charleston checking out some of the homes is worthwhile.
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| Carriage ride |
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| Rooftop patio in Charleston |
After the tour we have 15 mins to make it over the 1 mile to
the “big red barn” where we board our carriage ride. We have been seeing these carriages go by
throughout the day so are quite looking forward to the ride. The tour is worthwhile with the guide giving
an excellent over view of the city’s history along with the historical
buildings. From the carriage tour we do
some walking around and end up at a roof top bar with what looks like a bunch
of lawyers. One thing we had noticed
about Charleston is there appeared to be a large number of lawyer’s offices. Over our beer we decide a play would be a
good way to spend the evening but we have left it too late and they are booked
for the evening.
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| Honking huge sailboat in harbour |
We head back to the
marina via the shuttle and take a walk along the docks. The night previously we had been in the
shuttle with some crew members off of a sailing yacht which up until two years
ago claimed to have the highest mast in the world so we want to go take a
look. The vessel is call Tamsen and is
beautiful with its dark blue topsides.
After our dock walk we head back to Jazzebelle for dinner,
an evening coffee and bed.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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