On The Waterway Again

We are back on the waterway working our way northward. Before leaving Charleston on Monday morning we spent Sunday afternoon back in the historic district. We took a much slower pace than on Saturday. We visited the Heyward-Washington house located within the area of the original walled city. This brick double house was built in 1772 by rice planter Daniel Heyward as a town-house for his son, Thomas Heyward, Jr. The city rented it for George Washington’s use during the President’s week-long Charleston stay, in May 1791, and it has traditionally been called the “Heyward-Washington House.”

We had to get back into the feel of the waterway on Monday. The current was against us more than it was with us and much of the day was near low tide, consequently we had a lot of skinny water. We stayed Monday night in Georgetown, but didn't go ashore. Today was a short day as we are positioning ourselves for the 'Rock Pile', a narrow area with a rocky bottom. We will go through tomorrow around noon at hide tide and slack current. Yesterday we saw two alligators, each around 6 feet. We had all but given up on seeing alligators, not having seen any with all the time we spent in Florida. Today we saw many Osprey nests and they all seemed to have little ones in the nests.