With everything on the boat fixed 🤞, Tuesday we took a Lyft to downtown Savannah. We stopped first at the Forsyth Park Fountain.

A beautiful park, the fountain has different figures spraying water all around it. We then walked through the historic district down to River Street. There were all sorts of different shops, restaurants and tour companies to take you around the city.

One store we went into had everything peach, this being Georgia and all. We got these amazing peach hard candies.

We went to see the famed waving girl statue. From 1887 to 1931, Florence Martus greeted ships entering Savannah by waving a cloth at approaching ships from the lighthouse on Cockspur Island. Her fame spread and ships would return her greetings with a blast from the ship’s horn. Many still sound a salute to her statue.

Then walked around checking out some of the old houses, of which there were plenty. A few of them have actually been turned into museums.  One we went to was owned by a private collector of military artifacts. He has been collecting since he was a child, his father having fought in WWII and his mother lived in England during that time, they passed some things down to him that started him off.

We went to the Savannah Smokehouse for lunch. They had a two meat lunch special, and though I don’t usually choose it, the smoked turkey was particularly recommended and was an exceptional surprise.

All throughout the city are these little parks that are like community courtyards. They have benches, many of them had fountains, and were very nice to sit and enjoy some ice cream.

That evening back at the boat, we made travel plans for tomorrow with Table Six. We were going to the same next stop and they said they would follow behind us so we could make sure we were fully operational again.

So Wednesday morning we were up early. Everything seemed good shoving off the dock, then when we got out of the marina basin Don eased the throttle up to full speed and it held. So we were good to go. It was a much nicer day out on the water.

When we got to Lady’s Island Marina we docked right behind Table Six again. We took the dogs for a walk and later went up to the Fillin’ Station for dinner. A popular local dive bar famous for their $5 burger Wednesday’s. As luck would have it, it was Wednesday 😄🍔. And it’s a good thing we like burgers, because the quirk of this special was that it was the ONLY thing they served that night. You come for burgers and burgers alone.

They were really good burgers though. They just mass grilled them, you simply ordered cheese or no cheese, got a buzzer, and when your burgers were ready you took them over to the condiments counter and topped them off how you liked yourself.

The restaurant was right on the water in front of the marina, with a large patio and live music. That night’s singer only sings on Wednesday’s, he comes for the burger special too 😆.

Thursday we headed up the ICW, not far, to South Fenwick Island. It was a very nice spot, completely secluded next to a State Park. There were three small docks you could take your dinghy too, perfect for the fluff. As we were coming in there were dolphins following us. Once we set up anchor they were just all around.

We took the dinghy over to the closet dock and walked around the island. There were placards along the trails telling you about the island’s history. It used to be one large island, split by the construction of the ICW. It was also the first piece of land purchased by a former slave after the Civil War.

It got cloudier and cloudier, and we made it back to the boat just in time for it to rain the rest of the day. The current kept us from swinging around though and it was one of the nicer anchor spots we’ve been to in a while.

Friday we were woken up early by more thunderstorms. We pulled up anchor and made our way to Charleston. The weather cleared along the way and the water was nice and calm up to the Charleston inlet. We came to the Charleston Maritime center. There was a lot of boat traffic surrounding us and during the day it was a little rocky. In the evening though it calmed down and was nice. It was close to downtown and that evening we went to check out the pineapple fountain in the park.

Saturday one of Don’s friends from back home, who lives down here now, was coming to meet up with us. We had some time in the morning before he got here, so we took the scenic route to where we were meeting for breakfast.

We met Josh at Ruby Sunshine. The same restaurant we had my birthday breakfast in Chattanooga. This one had seasonal special beignets, almond cheesecake with lemon blueberry compote.

From there we went to the USS Yorktown WWII aircraft carrier & museum.

It was very cool to see all the interworking of ship and the view from the flight deck. There was even a bakery where they had a recipe to make 10,000 chocolate chip cookies! You could purchase the cookies from the gift shop, but we only got 2.

Afterwards Josh had to head back home. He dropped us off back at the boat, and then Don and I walked to the Old Slave Mart Museum. It laid out the very sad history of the slave trade that took place in town and that very building.

On the way back we walked through the city market. It is four city blocks of stalls with a variety of goods. We found some more of the peach candy 😋.

Sunday morning we took a ferry to Fort Sumter, where the first shots that started the Civil War were fired. It is on an island and we were on the first ferry with the park rangers going to open the Fort for the day. Don even helped raise the flag.

Getting to hear the full story of the battle was interesting. The Fort sustained a lot of damage and lost the top tiers which used to stand 50 feet above the water.

When we got back we met Loopers from the boat Imagine at Ru Ru’s Tacos & Tequila for lunch. Fun spot that had a whole list of different tacos to try. I limited myself to three.

Don went back to the boat to do laundry and I walked around the city some more. So many beautiful old houses, many had their own courtyards and fountains. One section was called Rainbow Row. It is the largest cluster of intact Georgian row houses in the United States.

This morning we set off for Georgetown. We left Charleston at high tide, but a long the way it shifted and as we were cruising along the ICW at low tide, many of the floating docks along the water, weren’t exactly floating 😲.

We came to the Harborwalk Marina. A cute little marina, Skia and I took a walk after getting set up. It was right next to a very pretty neighborhood where the cats seemed to outnumber the squirrels. Seriously, there were at least 2 in every other driveway, one house had 5!

The main road along the water had a bunch of shops and restaurants. There are also a few interesting looking museums that should be fun to check out tomorrow.