Vacation to Charleston

At Poogin's Porch in Charleston for lunch.

On a bouncing bench on the porch of Edmonston-Alston house. This house is the house where General Beauregard watched the bombing of Fr. Sumter at the start of the Civil War. The story is that there actually was a party on this porch and on some of the other porches of East Battery of the wealthy southern families. In the house was a sign document of families who backed the secession from the Union.


Near the beginning of May, we used our vacation time and airline credits to fly to Charleston and see friends and places we hadn't seen in over a year. For both of us, the highlight of the trip was spending time with friends from Daniel Island and catching up on the year's news. Apart from those visits, it was nice to take in the slower pace of a vacation and walk on our old favorite walking paths and stroll around downtown Charleston and take in the homes and imagine the history that had formed in the city. If bricks could talk....The Catholic church that just last year (2010) had its steeple put on top. The Civil War set it back and other finacial times from completing its building.

One new adventure we had was taking an eco tour to the Barrier Islands north of Island of Palms. This morning adventure was guided by a former school teacher who brought varying levels of explanations of the plant and animal life in the region. We docked for about an hour at the Atlantic side of an island which was literally eroding into the ocean. The old forest is slowly washing to sea and then the new part of the island is being deposited on the west side. On our stroll down the beach we saw tiny shelled animals (maybe small clams?) at the bases of the standing trees. Unfortunately, on this island our camera fell into the sand and then jammed up so we have limited picturesof our trip from that point on.The photo taken by timer right before the camera fell into the sand.