East Coast Spring Vacation part 3 - Charleston, SC

On to Charleston, SC and numerous National Park sites...  We visited so many Nation Park sites that you'll forgive me for forgetting many of them.  Our NP Passports document the travels so that I don't need too!

This was a plantation national park which was owned by one of the contributors to the Declaration of Independence.  Mason is working on his Junior Ranger certificate here.

I didn't know the drawing-on-the-ground position was hereditary, but it seems both boys do it the same.

Discussing Junior Ranger business

I think Mason was happy about getting his Ranger certificate

Our rangers

  

This was not a national park, but nonetheless a cool plantation to visit because the house is totally unrestored.  Literally.  Is was never updated to electricity or plumbing and the person that left it the trust requested that it remain as such.  Pretty neat to see.

Charleston River Walk

Not Fort Sumter, but some seemingly un-visitable fort in the bay.  Note the dolphin coming out for air.

Whoa, another NP stop.  This one was a surprise.  We were travelling on I-20 in SC and Andrea noted that we could hit a NP outside of Columbia, SC.  So, we went for it.  It's a forest preserve.  I didn't catch a picture of it, but they have a "mosquito meter" at the ranger's office.  I think the top of the scale was "you will be eaten alive without repellant."  Luckily, we were there early enough in the season that they weren't an issue.

Mason's drawing of the leaf in teh picture above.

This picture got thrown in here because we were on the way home and stopped in southern WV for the night.  We thought it interesting that we were camping next to leftover snow.  We did it all on this trip: mosquitoes, humidity, and shorts to camping in snow.