Question for the guys down South...

[ausf]

My son is doing his Webb Winter work at a shipyard in Charleston, SC.

They provide him housing and a car, he'll be there for 2 months. Besides BBQ, what else could an 18 year old look to do in the area on weekends? He'd love any military museum, etc and will be there with two other kids as well.

 

[moon puppy]

We don't have enough time!! I Love Charleston!!

The Powder Magazine, very interesting site. Part of the original defensive wall of the old town. Him being engineer type would appreciate the construction of it. The walls were like 3 feet thick at the bottom but taper off toward the top, that way if it ever blew up it would blow up, taking the path of least resistance. Pretty dang smart if you ask me.

The Market, sorry, but yes slaves were sold there and other locations. They say otherwise on the tours but it's pretty well documented.

Old Customs House, George Washington danced there...Great American! :salute

The Citadel.

The old forts, all of them. Fort Moultrie is actually my favorite, much more rich history than others, it dates back to Revolution. Breech Inlet is where the British were turned back and the Hunley docked (not at the same time ). I could point out some historical spots there but they are hard to see. There's a house actually built on the foundation for one of the guns of Battery Marshall. You can see some of the weapon storage locations out there, one was turned into a house also.

White Point gardens, Steed Bonnett was hung there. Not much to see but another place a lot of action took place at.

Food...just pick one. It's been a while since I had time to take in a good meal there but the hole in the wall places are generally better. There was a place out towards Folly Island, I'll look if it's still there.

Of course being at the navy yard he has to go check out the Hunley, Southern Built you know...

I'm sure I'll add more soon.

 

[moon puppy]

Looks like the hole in the wall on the causeway is now called LoLo's.
https://goo.gl/maps/95gBb3wrazsignps9

Reviews look good. I'd try it.

 

[moon puppy]

http://dunleavysonsullivans.com

Dunleavy's Pub on Sully's. It's been there forever, I think PGT Beauregard himself ate there...

 

[ausf]

Thanks Bob, I'll pass all that on.

He wants to specialize in subs, so I'm sure he'll visit the Hunley.

 

[moon puppy]

We were visiting years ago and were at Moultrie out by the shore. Lot of people there and I noticed a group getting excited. They started waving at something, I couldn't see it. I figured out what they were waving at, it was the sail of a Sub coming into port. Hard to see because from this vantage point it was coming directly at us. So she made his turn into the channel and there were some guys fishing out on the jetty. People started hollering at them to come in, of course there's always one...He stayed out there.

The Sub passed and the wake from this thing was crazy, probably 8-10 swell. The dumby out on the jetty got sweeped off the rocks. Lost his gear..he's luck he didn't drown.

 

[ausf]

Wow. I guess subs really displaced a lot of water you don't see.

When I was kid there was a place that people would fish for Stripers. They'd wade out and cast. But every so often a line of Super cargoes would enter (or leave) the Harbor and the way the lanes were dredged, they'd pull a suction that would be like a tidal wave. All of a sudden the water would recede, eventually to flood back if you didn't know better to get outta Dodge, you were in for swim.

We got caught in something like that once diving for Lobster at a lighthouse (actually going back to retrieve my weight belt I lost the night before diving for lobster). We came around a corner to a current switch so strong it knocked our masks sideways. When we surfaced, the boat anchor was being dragged and it was making it's way away from us. My buddy (it was his boat) took off swimming as hard as he could towards the bow and barely reached the end of trail line 30 feet behind the boat. If he missed, next stop would have been the Statue of Liberty and after that, England I guess. In the time it took him to get to the boat and drive it back to me, the water went from my knees to my neck. I never experienced such a severe tidal exchange and we guessed it was ship driven.

 

[SA Dave]

thats waaaaaay to north for me :geek

 

[moon puppy]

thats waaaaaay to north for me :geek

Well if you come visit I'd go meet ya.

 

[ij001]

Think I may be the the Southernmost MA'er... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Plymouth - but that doesn't really help answer the original question does it ?

:smack


Ian.

 

[Paulw]

Have him check out Patriots Point.

https://www.patriotspoint.org/

It has changed quite a bit since I was stationed there in the 80's.

 

[moon puppy]

Have him check out Patriots Point.

https://www.patriotspoint.org/

It has changed quite a bit since I was stationed there in the 80's.

That goes without saying.

Also while going over the bridge he can see one of the experimental concrete ship hull ( Col. J. E. Sawyer) they tested a while back.