M/V Nearly Perfect: April 10-12, 2015

We said goodbye to Reggie and Emmy and then left Toler’s Cove Marina for a one-hour trip to the Harborage at Ashley Marina on the east side of Charleston. We started off with a 90 minute historic bus tour around Charleston. We drove through the Citadel, the market area, and the Battery area which consisted of pre-civil war homes along the waterfront. On Saturday, we made a quick trip to the grocery store and then relaxed around the boat all day. We finally ran out of luck with the weather and had a little rain that day. On Sunday, we took a boat ride out to see Ft. Sumter. The tour was very interesting and visiting the fort took us back in time. Because it was Jack’s birthday (and because it was the 154^th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War), the tour group was treated to a display of how muskets were loaded and fired while in battle. After Ft. Sumter, we took a water taxi across Charleston Harbor to Patriots Point where we toured the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, the destroyer USS Laffey, the submarine USS Clamagore, plus a mock village from Viet Nam. The Yorktown was featured in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora plus it recovered the Apollo 8 astronauts. We walked through the submarine and it was very narrow and claustrophobic! It was a very interesting and educational day.