We woke up to a grand morning!!  Sunshine and cool breezes.

When you are out on the outside dock, you can get some great views.  A beautiful sunrise.

Sunrise in Beaufort, SC

We borrowed the marina courtesy car and did a quick trip to the local Publix to stock up on the perishables.  Turns out they have more than one courtesy vehicle.  Ours was a dodge truck.  Worked like a charm!!  Then we drove around the neighborhood with historical houses.  I did get a brief picture as we rolled by.  The historical houses are mixed in with not-so-historical everyday abodes.  Fascinating.

I will not swear that any of these are “THE” historical houses mentioned in the brochures.  There is no signage out front.

Lovely Blue

Great Red barn color

BUT, I love the colors.  If any of you readers are from Arizona, you know that shades of brown are almost always required in most subdivisions in the Phoenix area.  To see color is a joy.  Really.  Just a little thing.

The marina has some gorgeous old trees in front of their building.

Spanish Moss dripping from this tree

An interesting marina aspect is the floating small boat platforms.  That makes sense since the tides go up and down over 5 feet at least twice a day.  This has to be cheaper than building a structure to lift the boats up over the tides.  This is the first time we have seen these.  It looks like there is a winch in the front which must aid the boater in pulling their boat up onto the platform.

Floating panels

Floating Panels

We had made a reservation to stay here because they had the 3 for 2 deal.  Stay 2 nights and get the 3rd night free.  The weather was gorgeous.  Why not?

Then we happened to meet up with the Loopers again.  They mentioned, again, that we need to be moving north to make it to Norfolk in a timely manner.  Why waste a perfectly gorgeous day on the water sitting around at the marina?   They are so correct!  So, we are off in the morning.

From the Dock Master Office.