City Marina of Beaufort, Beaufort, SC

Another beautiful warm day, heard one lady in town saying that spring had come too early, it should not be this warm quite this early. I asked what summer is like here, she said very hot with very high humidity. Got the courtesy car with Jim and Gloria, went to West Marine and the grocery store, and still got back within our one hour time frame. We thought we did well. Both men got what they needed to do some work on  the boat. Wayne spent the afternoon changing fuel filters on the engine that didn't stop on us the other day, and a good thing he did. That filter was also quite dirty. When the fuel and the tanks were cleaned at Snead Island in January, they could not completely clean the bottom of the tanks because they have baffles, and they could not get down into every crack and crevice. We are assuming we are now filtering out the remains of that dirt.
Gloria and I took the car and visited the National Cemetary here in Beaufort, hundreds of graves row by row.
Got my hair cut today. Late this afternoon, Wayne and I went for another walk through the historic district. The streets have huge mature trees overhanging them, the houses are beautiful. After dinner, walked into town with Jim and Gloria for ice cream.

National Cemetary

Many of the historic homes have this double stairway up to the entrance, here and in Savannah. Apparently the men used the stairway on the left, the women the one on the right. The men could not see the women's ankles, hence separate stairways. The tour guide in Savannah said that if a man saw a woman's ankles, he would have to marry  her.



They take good care of their beautiful mature trees here.



Many of the old mansions are now used for  bed and breakfast, one is an inn, many are still private homes. We have seen several for sale.

We plan to leave in the morning, will anchor between here and Charleston, then go to Charleston on Friday.

The ramp from the land down to our floating docks is really steep at low tide, almost flat at high tide. Nine foot tides create quite a change every 6 hours or so.