As we departed Charleston (actually Mount Pleasant) for Savannah, we first made a short detour today to North Charleston to see the home where my wife's parents lived at the time she was born (she was a Navy baby, born on the Charleston Naval Base when her father was stationed here during the Vietnam War). Since they moved back to Oregon when she was just a baby, she has no personal memories of the place, but coming here as been a sort of pilgrimage to the place of her nativity.
After taking some photos of her first home, we ventured a little further to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, established in 1676. The 500 acre grounds are home to a plantation house, slave houses, gardens, forests, and former rice fields, some now flooded and home to alligators, turtles, lizards, and waterfowl. We took a guided tram tour to first get the overall layout and then explored ourselves on foot for the remainder of the afternoon.
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| Slave cabins. |
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| Virginia live oak. |
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| The Ashley River. |
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| Tasty (shell and all). |
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| This spider was about four inches across. |
You're not in Oregon anymore are you! I'm impressed that the photos of the alligators aren't blurry from your shaking!
ReplyDeleteI have duckweed in my pond. Love it. Glad I don't have an alligator though.
ReplyDeletethat's a lot of critters. Notice the peanuts have just "salt" and not "sea salt." You're not in foodie nation there.
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