We are back from the beach ....
... after spending four days there. We rented a room in a house on Edisto Beach with some friends of ours. We had a good time walking along the beach with our binoculars looking at the birds, the waves and the shore line. I especially liked the pelicans we saw. And the one lone shrimp boat. It is still a fairly modest beach, though big money is beginning to move in.
The first night we got in our friends took us to a nice seafood restaurant called Docksides. The next day we headed off late to Charleston to meet our friends. First we went off to the Waterfront area to our favorite park there, complete with the pineapple fountain. Then we walked out on the pier, which was the first place we came the first time we came to Charleston, back when we just gotten married. It was cool from the offshore breeze as we sat under the roofs on the pier - and it was a very hot day.
We met up with our friends, first at a place called Sticky Fingers, and then went across the street to Fig (F Is Good) for an excellent dinner. I had ivory salmon, some of the best I've ever had. After dinner we walked over to the Cistern for that night performance of "Burial at Thebes" as part of the Charleston Spoleto Festival. It was an impressive show since it is Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone. Being outside and with effective costuming and music it sometimes felt like we were really in ancient Greece.
The next day, while our friends went back into Charleston to see three more shows, we went out to America's only tea plantation. The folks there are very proud of the fact that you have to go for a far piece to find the next closest tea plantation. We took the trolley to see the fields. Apparently this place is perfect for tea plants but no one can afford the labor for picking it - so a local farmer invented a big harvester that does all the work. When we were done with the fields we came in for the tour of the processing factory. Then we sat on the rockers on the front porch and drank iced tea. Of course.
Our last day we just went driving around over to John's Island and Kiawah Island. Actually, you can't see anything much of Kiawah since it is so exclusive that no one can get on it who isn't a resident or intends to shop in the little shopping area. Otherwise you aren't wanted. John's Island is a different matter. There is one of the nicest trendy shopping malls there called Fresh Fields. We enjoyed looking around and then headed over to Cindy's Fresh Sea Food Market for dinner. Once again, the seafood was great. I had a huge piece of tuna for $19.95 with all the fixings. Since it costs $18.95 to buy it raw and cook it at home I figure you would be losing money to do that. Carmen and I both enjoyed our meal. Lots of low country atmosphere too.
The next day we drove home. Put nearly 1000 miles on the car and used up two and a half tanks of gas, and it was worth it.
... after spending four days there. We rented a room in a house on Edisto Beach with some friends of ours. We had a good time walking along the beach with our binoculars looking at the birds, the waves and the shore line. I especially liked the pelicans we saw. And the one lone shrimp boat. It is still a fairly modest beach, though big money is beginning to move in.
The first night we got in our friends took us to a nice seafood restaurant called Docksides. The next day we headed off late to Charleston to meet our friends. First we went off to the Waterfront area to our favorite park there, complete with the pineapple fountain. Then we walked out on the pier, which was the first place we came the first time we came to Charleston, back when we just gotten married. It was cool from the offshore breeze as we sat under the roofs on the pier - and it was a very hot day.
We met up with our friends, first at a place called Sticky Fingers, and then went across the street to Fig (F Is Good) for an excellent dinner. I had ivory salmon, some of the best I've ever had. After dinner we walked over to the Cistern for that night performance of "Burial at Thebes" as part of the Charleston Spoleto Festival. It was an impressive show since it is Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone. Being outside and with effective costuming and music it sometimes felt like we were really in ancient Greece.
The next day, while our friends went back into Charleston to see three more shows, we went out to America's only tea plantation. The folks there are very proud of the fact that you have to go for a far piece to find the next closest tea plantation. We took the trolley to see the fields. Apparently this place is perfect for tea plants but no one can afford the labor for picking it - so a local farmer invented a big harvester that does all the work. When we were done with the fields we came in for the tour of the processing factory. Then we sat on the rockers on the front porch and drank iced tea. Of course.
Our last day we just went driving around over to John's Island and Kiawah Island. Actually, you can't see anything much of Kiawah since it is so exclusive that no one can get on it who isn't a resident or intends to shop in the little shopping area. Otherwise you aren't wanted. John's Island is a different matter. There is one of the nicest trendy shopping malls there called Fresh Fields. We enjoyed looking around and then headed over to Cindy's Fresh Sea Food Market for dinner. Once again, the seafood was great. I had a huge piece of tuna for $19.95 with all the fixings. Since it costs $18.95 to buy it raw and cook it at home I figure you would be losing money to do that. Carmen and I both enjoyed our meal. Lots of low country atmosphere too.
The next day we drove home. Put nearly 1000 miles on the car and used up two and a half tanks of gas, and it was worth it.
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