We departed Sanibel, Florida early last week and after a fairly quick trip across Lake Okeechobee and up the east coast, we have arrived in Ocracoke. We made a stop in Charleston, SC to visit our best friends Ron and Robin Terry.
Rainbow Row in downtown Charleston as seen from Southern Style as we came into the harbor
Robin just retired in December 2020 and they moved to Charleston in February. Keith and I were so excited to see their new home and spend some time with our friends. We had an absolutely wonderful week and were able to get off the boat and actually stay in the house with them.
The front door of their new home welcoming us as we arrived
From Sunday through Thursday we were social butterflies. In addition to the Terrys, we also got to visit with their daughter Lacey and her husband Davis, his parents Scott and Carla Toney, Carla's brother Gary and his wife Lauren, and Mike and Deb who are boater friends of ours that were passing through town at the same time. What a great crowd. One afternoon we got everyone together and took a lunch cruise on Southern Style over to Ron and Robin's neighborhood dock.
Here is Southern Style tied up at the Terry's neighborhood dock
View from street level in the development
We had quite a lunch spread on board thanks to Miss Robin
The lunch cruiser crew from left to right.....
Mike, Deb, Gail, Keith, Scott, Robin, and Ron. Carla took the picture of us.
Captain Keith doing the captain thing
Ron, Robin, Keith, and I also went to visit Middleton Place Plantation one day during our visit in Charleston. This plantation residence dates to the early 1700s. It is located along the Ashley River near North Charleston. The main house and approximately 500 acres was the dowry of Mary Williams in her marriage to Henry Middleton in 1741. Henry Middleton improved the property establishing gardens and added flankers to the main house. The north flanker contained a library with over 10,000 volumes, a music conservatory, and many paintings, prints and other artwork. Union troops set fire to Middleton Place on February 22, 1865 burning the main house and north flanker to the ground. The south flanker was less severely damaged by the fire and was restored by the family in 1869 to be their residence. Today the south flanker is a museum containing many heirlooms from the family during this period. It has been open to the public since 1975.
Front of Middleton Place (South flanker)
Stables (they give carriage rides around some of the property)
There are numerous animals on the grounds just as the family had in the time they resided here
They had water buffalo on the Plantation as the family used these to work the rice fields
Some additional pictures of the grounds around Middleton Place
It was a great week in Charleston, but the fish were calling us back to the outer banks. We headed north on Friday April 23rd and cruised from Charleston to Morehead City, NC.
Friday morning heading out Charleston Inlet
The ride up to Morehead City went well and Saturday morning at 6:00 AM I left with our Jeep to catch the 7:30 AM ferry from Cedar Island to Ocracoke while Keith took Southern Style across.
Me in the Jeep squeezed onto the ferry beside a big camper
Around 9:00 AM Keith caught up to me with Southern Style. Here he is approaching the ferry from the stern. He is the little speck in the distance.
And here is Southern Style passing the ferry on the way to Ocracoke.
It was a cloudy, gray day with rain and wind predicted for later in the afternoon; however with the early start we both made it to Ocracoke before the weather moved in. It is great to be back "on island". We are excited for fishing and beaching and visiting friends here. We will have access to a new fishing boat for the summer and I will keep y'all up to date with that in the next several posts. It's going to be a good summer. Stay tuned.
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