June 2017 - Charleston
We spent a weekend in Charleston, South Carolina. We hung out around town and ate a _lot_ of _really_ good food. We also made it over to Fort Sumter, and did some bird watching at the Magnolia plantation.
We spent a weekend in Charleston, South Carolina. We hung out around town and ate a _lot_ of _really_ good food. We also made it over to Fort Sumter, and did some bird watching at the Magnolia plantation.
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| Around Charleston | ||
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| The Rainbow Row | Enjoying a break in the shade | In a store we came across a translation of the New Testament into an English creole. Amazing! |
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| Fort Sumter | The big guns | |
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| A cannon round embedded in the wall from when the fort was shelled by Union forces | ||
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| On top of a large artillery platform that was added to the fort after the Civil War | The backside of the island that Fort Sumter sits on | |
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| A squadron of pelicans | An icon of Charleston | The USS Yorktown |
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| A blackbird at the Magnolia Plantation | A great blue heron coming in to land | |
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| An anhinga drying his wings out in a tree | Alligator! | |
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| A coot | An anhinga when he isn't drying his wings | A snowy egret |
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| More anhinga action | A moorhen | |
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| An anhinga with a fresh-caught fish! | Fish going down | A remarkably ugly baby moorhen |
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| A tricolored heron | An American bittern, fishing | Mom and chick moorhens |
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| A least bittern | A great egret | Swamp. |
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| The boardwalk we walked along. | A yellow-bellied slider relaxing in the gunk | A golde silk orb-weaver. At one point during our walk around the swamp we realized that we were surrounded by these enormous, disgusting spiders on all sides of the trail. It was really gross. |
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| Trees full of herons and egrets | Great egrets | A little blue heron |
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| Great egret nests | ||
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| More anhingas | Alligator! | A green heron |