The Chaleston Shuffle

What an amazing city...Charleston,NC...tons of restaurants, incredible amount of history every turn you make, beautiful homes and really friendly people. Being the cheap sailors that we are, we took advantage of the local trolley to see the city ($5) for the day. We were in Charleston in 2001 and found a French resaurant that was affordable, casual and all the bread,stews etc are homemade. As I was walking hru the city I fell upon this amazing place once again...time to drool...cheese and pate platter with homemade bread..$9.50. We also walked throughout the Battery area that has all the old (Civil War) mansions that are in impeccable condition, beautifully manicured yards with fountains and flowers. We then left Charleston to Beaufort, SC and stayed until the weather was right to go on the outside to Fernanadina Beach, Florida. They have mermaid sculptures in the town near the businesses...pretty cool. We made our exit from Beaufort at 3:30 in the afternoon and made it to fernandina by 10:the next day. They sail mimicked a roller coaster ride that you could not get off of...big winds and waves and pitch blackness for most of the early morning. We did have 2 other boats that left with us and we were able to talk via the VHF....kinda nice to hear a familiar voice in the middle of such a wild ride. The other cool thing was all the shooting stars that we saw when the moon was bright!!!As we pulled into Fernandina, the sun came out and the weather heated up. It was a nice welcoming after wearing every piece of foul weather gear we have....Now we are in Jacksonville...back to warmer temps....Yeah!