BUS TOUR of CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

Our home at the ELKS has been a nice place, however, too much traffic noise at night. We noticed it more because we were boon docking and had no air conditioners to camouflage the noise. But the weather was nice and breezy and we enjoyed having all of the windows open. We even had to take the plexiglas off of the door. I think that we will be sweeping out sand and dust for the next six months!

View from our doorway looking toward the streets.

Looking from the opposite side from the large window.

During the evenings we were entertained with a variety of ball games. Gary could not figure out what some of the games were. Quite often there were two or three groups playing at one time. But we were completely surrounded with cars and they even had a traffic guard so that they did not park over in the ELKS parking lot. Gary picked up the discarded pop and beer cans the next morning. It was a good thing that the ELKS have a can bin to benefit Alzheimer's.

Tuesday, March 29th -
We took an all morning bus tour of the city and the afternoon the tour went to Magnolia/Drayton Plantation.
(We are now under storm warnings for this area. So we are thinking that we might have to turtle up)
In the mean time, I will continue to write.
Most of the homes were three floor, single family dwellings. And they still remain that way. I found the style of main entry interesting. The door looks like any other front door, but all that is behind and above is porch/balconies. Usually the home next door had very few windows facing that direction to respect the privacy of the home as you see here.

He took us on to the Battery where we could look over the water to Fort Sumter. (That tour will be the next day). The next pictures were things to our backs while looking out over the water.

I loved the cobblestone street. But we hated the width of the streets!  So narrow, sure not like Savannah!
On to the plantation -

Would you believe that I forgot to take a picture of the house??

But the plant and animal life was very interesting. Many bushes and trees were in full bloom and some yet to burst.  We went by train through much of that.

They do not swim using the front legs,
but with a side to side movement of the tail instead.

Mammas guarding the nests!

Mama or papa sunning her/him self!

Notice the green around the eye?
Both the male and female acquire the green
during mating season.

Of course, we enjoy the history stories. Tomorrow will be Fort Sumter where the Civil War began.