Charleston

After a late start to the day we all went and had showers before we headed into downtown Charleston we were waiting for the marina courtesy van when the broker Peter called who had a few things to sort out and offered to take us in.

He drove us around the peninsular showing us the residential area and where he used to live explaining how it had changed over time, he couldn’t quite drop us off near to where everything was as there had been a gas leak and some of the roads had been closed which caused loads of traffic jams all along the smaller streets.

We eventually made our way to where all of the restaurants were situated and choose to eat in a smoke house which brewed its own beer. Dad and I shared some chicken wings which were very tasty and then came our main course Dad had smoked ribs which he really enjoyed and Jo and I had a pizza each Jo had smoked vegetable and I had smoked bacon, we could see them making the pizza and putting them into the ovens right near to where we were sat.

After our lunch we went for more of a look around of Charleston so we headed toward the water front where the was a huge fountain with lots of children playing in it.

This sign made us all laugh

Also along the pier were a few swing benches so we all had a seat and a few minutes sat there swinging.

Me and Dad

At the end of the pier we could see over Cooper river.

Jo and I

We then had a quick walk through the park and went back on to the main street and had one last drink in a cafe bar before we got the marina van back.

But on the way back Jo and I had noticed that we had missed the main shopping street so we quite disappointed we hadn’t found that.

We got back to the boat and just was relaxing and as it was getting dark we heard a few shouts and when we went to go and see what it was a huge fish had jumped out of the water, we are not sure what it was but it was about six foot long, but hopefully it didn’t die as Dad managed to push it back in to the water after it flapped around and grunted for a little bit.

After that nothing else eventful happened and we just watched the day the earth stood still and went to bed.

 

Alex Penney