Awoke to a rainy and grey day with a Coast Guard warning about coastal flooding. Apparently, flooding is a fairly common occurrence in Charleston. Yesterday’s tour guide remarked that his family routinely carries furniture from the first floor to the second and then hopes for the best for the appliances too large to move. A nice thing about being on a boat is that “coastal flooding” just means that the water gets deeper! Will’s comment about the weather was perfect: “Even a grey day on Dot.Calm is bright.” Today we cruised back to Gdansk, er, I mean the original boat yard, to pick up repaired stanchion and the dinghy that the truck driver, thankfully, dropped off. The grey sky matched the grey of military refueling ships that seem to be in dry dock and the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier, an on-the-water museum/attraction. Our route took us under the stunning Arthur Ravenal Bridge that spans the Cooper River — pronounced, we learned on our tour, to rhyme with “cooker” and not “coo-per.” We celebrated our first mini-cruise with granola-banana-blueberry-yogurt parfaits and a glass of champagne. Yum. Afternoon spent zipping to variety of stores to get a long list of things we’ve decided we cannot do without before we set off tomorrow for the first leg of our ICW trip from Charleston to Beaufort.
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