Charleston Sc.

Can you see the end of this dock? Click the photo for more detail if you can't. This was early in the afternoon. Later on the dock filled up with megayachts. In fact they call this the Megadock. Not only is this the Megadock, it's the fuel dock. They fueled us where we are, and they can fuel boats all the way out to the end. This is a floating concrete dock that trancends all we have seen to date. The sailboat mast over our bow lights up at night and is nothing less than spectacular.

It's pretty obvious that the city of Charleston Sc. had it's act together when they decided to upgrade the waterfront. This is a no holds barred upscale, gotta have a golf cart to get around marina.

The photo however, does not do the proximity of the other (expensive) boats justice. We have about four feet off each end. It was a tight squeeze and the dock hands gave me a few thumbs up. When I shut her down, I yelled out "we don't need no stanking bow thrusters!" and we all had a great laugh.

We're glad we stopped here to adjust for the next day's travel and the associated tide. We wound up only doing 11 miles today but it was worth it to spend the afternoon in Charleston. It's a great little city with many pleasant streets to walk around in and places to dine. We had lunch at Hyman's and it was fantastic. I don't think we've had better seafood elsewhere. And their aquarium is also worth a look. The 10$ fee to get in was well worth it.

We could use another day here.

Uploaded latest Garmin data to Southbound.kmz and added more photos to the bucket. They have been sorted newest first. Hopefully this pans out well.

http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh40/danno53/Southbound/