Beautiful Charleston homes overlooking Charleston Harbor.
Hanger located 1st deck below flight deck of SS Yorktown, located here in Charleston.
One of Charleston's many beautiful city parks
Tom standing on the flight deck of SS Yorktown Air Craft Carrier
On Flight Deck of Air Craft Carrier SS Yorktown
Bridge over the Cooper River
Tom having ice cream with this buddy.
Okay I'm in front of Ben & Jerry's but I'm not caught with ice cream
United States Custom House, Charlestoon, SC
Statue In the park where college girls were sunbathing in bikinis
As we arrived in Charleston we traveled under the spectacular Cooper Bridge. It is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere with 128 suspension cables. The 8 lane bridge has a 186’ vertical clearance and has a 12 foot wide pedestrian and bike path.
Charleston is the fourth largest shipping port on the east coast. We are at the Maritime Marina on the Cooper River because it is close to downtown. Yesterday we rode bikes around this beautiful southern city and included Market Square. This is an outdoor flea market that goes for blocks. At 5:00 closing time on Sunday, we watched as they packed everything up, retrieved their car from who knows where, found parking on this busy street and loaded all of their product.
Several friends suggested eating at the Noisy Oyster so we tried that for dinner last night and we were not disappointed. It seems like every other building is a restaurant. This makes for a tough decision of where to choose. I may have to stay a week! Hyman’s Seafood is next on our list.
The water taxi to Patriots Point is right at this harbor and leaves every half hour. We hopped on their first departure at 10:30 this morning and toured the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. About 700,000 visitors tour the Yorktown a year, making it the most heavily visited attraction in South Carolina. The ship total per cruise was 3500. They served 4 meals a day (one at midnight for that shift) and had soup available 24/7. Can you imagine the number of potatoes to peel??? It is hard to comprehend how they were able to build monster ships and have everything working. We also went aboard the submarine USS Clamagore. It is hard to imagine all these men living in such tight quarters for such a long time. After we returned from the water taxi we rode the Waterfront Park and Rainbow Row to the Battery Park. There are numerous fabulous homes/mansions that line this beautiful palm tree lined street overlooking Charleston Harbor. What a spectacular piece of real estate in this history filled community.
Today, we had the fortune of connecting with our long time looper friends Cindy and Alex Shue off of "Tug Hill Tug". They arrived here at Charleston Maritime Marina early this morning for a 24 hour stay. This evening the four of us rode our bicycles to A.W. Shucks, a restaurant in the historic district. What a fun couple to have dinner with and to share our journey experiences, good and bad. We truly enjoy their friendship and will for years to come.
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