more Charleston Trip pictures at last in shiny things

Yeah, that certainly took long enough. Instead of posting a big long entry and then running out of time and/or patience to post more than a few pictures, I'm just going to post pictures. And I swear, SWEAR, I'm going to make more of an effort here. Shorter and more frequent entries. Ha.

Mostly we just walked around.

We drove to Rockville one afternoon - it's a teeny tiny place right on the water, maybe 15 miles from Charleston. It's full of huge oaks and Spanish moss.

Baker B under huge oaks-

We also went to Folly Beach -- THREE TIMES. We never go to Folly that many times. Every day we'd drive over there and have a Blue Moon or three at the oceanfront bar at the Tides hotel. The last day we finally walked to the lighthouse because it was sunny. It was a little dreary and rainy the first two days.

The oceanfront street had actually flooded the second day we were there- it had rained REALLY hard right before we got there. Oddly enough, we didn't get rained on the entire time, beyond a few drops here and there.

Obligatory Under The Pier Picture:

Sunny Day Beer At the Bar:

View from the outside bar:

The Morris Island Lighthouse:

I looooove this lighthouse. It was built in 1876 and due to erosion is now standing alone out in the water.

This part of the island is wonderful to walk on - it's never crowded (no swimming allowed due to the strong dangerous currents) so it's peaceful and gorgeous. (all these beach pictures are taken with my little powershot- I was too afraid of blowing sand to take the Brand New SLR)

You can see the huge Ravenel Bridge that goes from Charleston to Mount Pleasant from this beach. We always stay at Mount Pleasant so we drive over this bridge a lot. You can walk over it too, but sadly we never did get around to it this trip.

We walked around to the sound on the opposite side of the beach, and saw dolphins! I took a gazillion pictures and had maybe two with bits of fin. Dolphins are hard to get pictures of. They are often swimming around near the lighthouse, and even sometimes in the bay at the historical district in Charleston.

The tide came in while we were walking, but we didn't get stranded. (There wasn't too much danger - you could walk along the edges behind the driftwood if you had to)

Wow-- that's a lot of pictures. I'm ready to go back. It's FREEZING here. Okay, it's 66 outside right now so isn't exactly freezing, but it's not exactly July weather either. And our offices are like meatlockers-- I have had my heater on all week. I have my heater on right now. It's kind of depressing. Summer needs to get back here right now - it's short enough in this place as it is.