Charleston

Below are a few pictures taken during my trip to South Carolina. From Atlanta, we drove East to Augusta and Columbia. After Columbia, we reached Congaree Swamp, a huge floodplain that gets swamped a few weeks every year and which is home to bold cypress trees of incredible size.

Large Trees in Congaree Swamp

Next was Charleston, a nice and typical laid-back Southern city with old-fashioned ante-bellum houses. It is also home to Patriot Point which features an aircraft carrier full of US Navy aircraft as well as a submarine. I went there in 1986 when I was four years old. Apparently I did show a lot of interest for what I was seeing at that time especially gazing at the aircraft and the arrestor hooks and cables.

USS Yorktown mooring in Charleston

Loitering on a jetty on Folly beach, we witnessed a baby shark being caught by an angler. Actually we saw several anglers getting sharks. Makes you think quite a bit since the end of the pier is just a few hundred meters off the beach where people were swimming...

A baby shark caught off the beach in Folly Island

Finally, we ended the trip with a visit to Beaufort (where there was no wind...) and to Hunting Island that is home to an interesting state park with waters that are so warm we could spend the whole day relaxing and drifting in them.

White Sand beach on Hunting Island