Jammin'AfterThree: September 2013

Friday, September 27, 2013

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

We traveled to Charleston for an overnight and to visit family. This town is a beautiful historic town with plenty of sights to see.

Charleston Harbor has many boats on mooring balls.

Very large boats

And even larger boats...

And of course the Coast Guard!!!

The Battery

Beautiful church steeples

Fleet Landing Bar & Restaurant

The U.S. Customs House

USS Yorktown

Take a sightseeing cruise from the Maritime Center

Charleston is also a port.

Fort Sumter

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Cumberland Island, Georgia is definitely worth a visit. When the island was donated one condition was that the horses were to remain on the island to roam free and live in the wild. Their life expectancy is only about 5 years and a lot of foals and their mothers die at birth. They do not get any vet care and are only provided water if there is not enough fresh available. We anchored out near the Southern end of the Island and loaded ourselves and the dogs into the dink and went for a visit...

This was our anchorage among many sailboats.

You can watch the wild horses on shore.

John releasing a horseshoe crab back into the ocean.

Sand dunes

Road for the Park Rangers

Hermit crabs...there were thousands!!!!

Dungeness Ruins.

There were lots of new babies.

Ready for a nap.

Car ferry for the Park Rangers

Manatee

Crazy looking palm tree.

Sightseeing boat leaves from St. Mary's to Cumberland.

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

We traveled up the St. John's River to the Trout River and Seafarers' Marina where the boat stayed for six weeks until we closed up everything in Charlotte. The following pictures are when we left Seafarers on May 28, 2013 to pick up where we left off and begin our journey to Wilmington, NC.

We were up at sunrise to continue our journey.

Jacksonville was still asleep.

Nuclear power plant along the St. John's

There is a lot of commercial traffic on the St. John's

And you better stay out of their way!!!!!

Along Sisters' Creek

No commercial traffic here.

Entering Amelia Island area...

Fernandina Beach waterfront

Very smelly paper factory in Fernandina

Fort Cinch...it has a lot of cannons!!!!!

WILMINGTON, NC - A VIEW FROM THE WATER

We try to take the boat out on a sunset cruise at least once a week. Here is a look at Wilmington from the water. You definitely get a different view...