Norfolk Bound

Greetings, One and All. We are preparing to leave the Charleston City Marina tomorrow after spending a month here while Bernie helped build the new West Marine store. This is a first rate marina with much to offer including great floating docks, Wi-Fi, cable TV, excellent restaurant, full convenience store with great coffee bar and a courtesy van which makes hourly runs around the local area. We have seen many of our seafaring friends and made some new ones while here, spent some time with Arlene and Sue, and bicycled around the historic district many times. We also saw a baseball game (class A NYY farm team) and saw the only "switch" pitcher in professional baseball. He has a custom glove which can be worn on either hand. He pitched the 9th inning and retired the side for a save including both left handed and right handed strike outs. While touring old town Chaleston we also saw the oldest paid continuously active fire station in the country, it was opened in 1887. We also went to Patriots Point where a collection of WW II naval vessels are moored, including the aircraft carrier Yorktown which is a wonderful museum. Just think the house we took a picture of could be yours for a mere 10 million dollars.
We will now proceed on toward Norfolk, VA where we have arranged for the remaining repair to Cat's Cradle will be done by the shipwright who designed and fabricated the arch in 2005. We will be watching that Alligator River Swing Bridge very closely as we pass through !