After leaving Savannah on Thursday and anchoring out Thursday night, we arrived in Beaufort (Bew-fort), SC on Friday afternoon. Beaufort is a neat little town with a really nice waterfront park and many old historical homes that were built by the plantation owners. They built these waterfront homes for the cool summer breezes. Most are built with the first floor up off the ground and are usually two stories with the warp around porches on both floors. Very elegant and stylist, although I would think not very cost efficient in today's world. They are, however, beautiful homes.

It seems that we arrived at the end of the two week Water Festival here in Beaufort. In addition to the craft fair going on there were several other events left on the schedule. We went into town on Friday evening to attend the River Dance, with a band from Knoxville, TN playing. Usually, I enjoy music of bands from TN but, unfortunately this band, The Dirty Guv'nahs, played for a much younger crowd and the music was impossible for our type of dancing.

On Saturday, there was an air show scheduled and we were advised our boat could remain at anchor but we couldn't be on it during the show since we were in the flight path of the aerobatic planes. Made sense to me so we went ashore and enjoyed the show.

We were able to have a short tour on a docked shrimp boat while there, similar to the one Forrest Gump had, which by the way Forrest Gump along with many other movies including the Great Santini, Prince of Tides and Bagger Vance, were partially filmed in this area.

Here are a few pictures from Saturday.

On the shrimp boat:

The swing bridge we'll pass through when leaving, different than the draw bridges and high vertical bridges we are used to seeing:

Sky divers and aerobatic planes:

This sky diver attempted a water landing onto a small floating raft:

And didn't quite make it!!!! But, a really nice try.

A couple of shots looking out at the anchorage:

A really pretty area.

As some of you know, I also lost my phone of the way back in the dinghy to Tumbleweed. After a pretty extensive search, I have determined it may have fallen out of my pocket into the deep blue sea. I'll let you know when I have another one.

We'll be headed on north from here either later today or tomorrow. We'll do a short run up the ICW, then go outside for about a 20 mile sail into Charleston Harbor. Since we drove up to Charleston from Savannah for a day, we probably won't spend any time there. We've decided to pretty much "dead head" on up to Oriental, NC (about 350 miles) where we plan to spend 3 - 4 weeks just hanging out and enjoying living in a marina where we'll have all of the amenities we could want.

I hope everyone had a nice weekend and a great week ahead!!