April 15 – 19, 2011
On this long stretch of days, my mom came for a boat visit. She arrived Friday night in time to celebrate my birthday with us. She, Kris and I explored Botany Bay the following day and later took Spin for a dingy ride down the marsh creeks. The 17th was a traveling day for the Krasnosky’s as the moved the boat to Charleston and a Mom and me day for my mother and I. We spent the day in Charleston mostly, just meandering down it’s beautiful streets, taking photos and enjoying ourselves. We all wandered Charleston on the 18th. The following day we had to bid my mom goodbye. Kris and I later visited Fort Sumter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
It was an extremely eventful week! I’ll let you all view it via the photo gallery:
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- Sea foam on Edisto Beach.
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- Spin and I on the breakers.
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- Kris and Ozzy crabbing off the dock.
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- Success! Large stone crabs.
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- Three nicely sized crabs.
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- The road to Botany Bay on Edisto.
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- Fiddler crab. These are all over in the marshes.
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- Botany Bay Beach.
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- My mom and I on the beach.
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- These trees line a large portion of the beach.
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- These old palm trees look like broom sticks.
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- Because you cannot take shells from the park, people decorate the trees with them.
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- The old ice house at Botany Bay.
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- What the plantation at the bay once looked like.
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- The plantation home now.
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- Kris thinks he’s a Southern Tarzan.
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- Old beehive well.
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- The mattress swing down the road.
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- Spin takes a drink while on the dingy.
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- Out in the marshes.
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- The boat leaves for Charleston. Mom and I will meet up with the Krasnosky’s there.
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- Pineapple fountain in Charleston.
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- At the Old Exchange and Customs House.
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- George Washington Park, mom’s favorite park in the city.
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- Inside the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
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- The Cathedral’s new steeple!
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- Steeple in the sun.
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- St. Michale’s steeple.
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- Spin visited the vet on our visit. She’s still on the up!
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- Taking a drink from the fountain in Battery Park.
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- The usual canon sitting shot at the Battery.
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- The market, where souvenirs and art pieces are sold now, but where people were once sold as slaves.
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- There are so many beautiful houses in Charleston!
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- As well as gardens.
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- Fort Sumter.
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- Once the front of the fort.
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- The shells of Union rifled cannons are still embedded in the walls of the fort.
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- Union shell.
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- Inside a rifled cannon.
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- The flag of the Confederate “Palmetto Guard”
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- The flag the Union soldiers flew while defending the South Carolina attack on the fort.
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- Gun port.
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- Kris takes aim.
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- The rifled cannons.
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- Our desserts at Kaminsky’s. I highly recommend it. Coffee, liquor, and quite excellent desserts!
