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On day 6 we headed back to Charleston.

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Or more precisely over the locally famous Ravenel bridge …

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To Patriots Point where we had tickets for a ferry. We arrived early as traffic can be tricky and stumbled on a press conference in the parking lot with the USS Yorktown in the background.

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The mayor and two other officials were rambling on about an upcoming spring yacht race…

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Which we wouldn’t be in the area for nor cared anything about, but my husband being my husband…

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Had to stand there and listen to the whole thing because at the end there was a question and answer period and he asked a question. Why? Because the man has to talk.

While he was doing that I looked around and took photos…

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The bridge from Patriots Point.

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The memorial and half of the Yorktown. I wish I’d known the ship was here, I would have scheduled time to tour her.

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Our ferry.

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The harbor.

And since my husband was still standing at the press conference? I checked out the gift store.

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Where the gifts were decidedly low brow.

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As well as deadly.

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This was absolutely bizarre to me. You’d never see ammunition for sale like this in Maine. It was just sitting there on the floor, in open boxes… where any child could take one.

WTH?

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Press conference over, we boarded our ferry.

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Under the watchful gaze of some pelicans.

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Who pose quite nicely for tourists.

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The ferry had two decks but it was a cold and windy afternoon so we went downstairs to cut the breeze.

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Charleston.

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A U.S. Park ranger gave an interesting lecture on the history of the place we were going to see.

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And though it was an overcast sky…

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It was still a lovely ride once I dragged my wind beaten spouse upstairs to the open deck.

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After 20 minutes…

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There it was.

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Sitting at the mouth of Charleston harbor.

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We disembarked…

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And walked on the very ground where the Civil War began.

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