Today we took a tour to Magnolia Plantation (can’t
leave Charleston without visiting a plantation). This plantation is known for its gardens. However, as is our
luck, most of the azaleas had finished blooming and the recent rain had knocked
off some of the remaining flowers. The gardens were beautiful and we spent a lot of time wandering around looking at all the flowers, shrubs and large oak trees. We
took a tram ride around some of the 500 acres that had contained rice fields
before the Civil War. Rice had been the
main crop of the area before the war.
Today the area has gone back to nature and is known as the Audubon Swamp where we saw several
alligators, turtles, blue heron, white egrets.
There was a small zoo area where rescued animals are protected. There were beautiful peacocks all over the
place. We also took a tour of the
plantation home, which was the third home built there. The other two had been destroyed by fire. The approach to the home was, of course,
through a tree lined lane. After the tour, we walked around downtown Charleston to get a final look at the city before leaving in the morning.
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