Sunday, November 15, 2009

A City In Photo Captions

Through most of our visit to Charleston, I realize we had provided all of our followers with plenty of photos, but no stories, leaving each to piece the parts together on their own. I thus decided to put together a string of photo captions to briefly summarize our site visit, separate from our full set of program updates. Starting with "IMG00161-20091113-1537.jpg" :

Charleston Coast Guard Station (next to which we anchored),

Ashley River Bridge

First laundry in a week (since New Bern)

Apparently someone had started a fire in the past

A tribute to Charleston's trading history (and source of much of its wealth)

The Palmetto State

Charleston Market at Night

Fountain!

Residential Alley

Fountain in Waterfront Park

Bluegrass Band playing in a venue

The nearby marina in the morning

Bucksport Sausage! YUM!

Alan updating the Ship's Log

Alan playing with his food

Our boat at anchor, and our method of transportation to shore

A little to the right Alan!

Another yawl under sail

Downtown Charleston

Non-indigenous Multicolor Penguins

Historic Buildings

Comparing French Skillets

Novice Busker!

Riviera Theatre

Charleston Market

Inside the Market

Charleston Hat Store!

The Charleston Market 100 years ago

The Charleston Market today

Charleston Hat Man! (original sign from 100 years ago)

Many Tourist Attractions

Not a horse … not a donkey

Traffic Jam

More Bars in More Places

Old Guard House

German Cruiseship

Deutschland

Peering at the waterfront

Two Scoops!

Cooper River Bridge

Sunset over Charleston

Looking down the riverfront

Alan tightening the head nuts on the engine (standard maintenance)

Liz varnishing the toerail

Trevor and his sweet shades

A reworked sewage system with a new mercerator pump

The row

Old Charleston Homes

More traffic

Charleston is known for its churches

A standard city block

Steeple

Walking through downtown

The EYE Crew entertaining the crowd

Local Art

Apparently you need a license to play music downtown (although don't worry, no tickets or trips to jail, just a notice on how to get a musician's license)