By Eyebee, on January 3rd, 2009
I’m so not an early morning person. I do what I have to do, but mornings are not my favorite time of day. However, I knew this would possibly be a good photo opportunity, so I said yes to the meetup, and set my alarm for 6am.
By the time I woke up, got washed dressed and made some breakfast and coffee it was 6.35.
Saturday mornings the traffic from North Charleston going downtown is very light, so we made it on time OK. Also there was plenty of nearby space in which to park.
We stayed about an hour and a half and took a number of photos, a couple of which I have posted in here. To see the best of the rest, you can see them in my flickr albums; the link is at the top of the page.
It was foggy out across the Cooper River this morning. The Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge was not at all visible when we got there, but after a while it started to clear, and by the time we left you could see across the river to Mount Pleasant, USS Yorktown, and the Marina.
The fog made for a number of interesting shots, not least the boat one at the top of this post, which was sitting just out in the river from the end of the Waterfront Park pier.
It really was an enjoyable photo session, and I worked up quite an appetite for breakfast afterwards!
By Eyebee, on May 16th, 2008
Why the sudden rash of photographs from England? Well, quite simply I was going through all my photographs, and I found a few that I might be of interest to you, dear readers, who come from all over the world, in any case.
Also, I guess I wanted to show that the good ‘ole US of A doesn’t have the biggest of quite everything!
There’s been a pier at Southend since 1830, when the local Aldermen decided that one was needed as many boats bring Londoners down river couldn’t call there due to the mudflats, particularly at low tide.
The original wooden pier was replaced by an iron structure in the 1870’s.
The pier has an interesting history, having suffered a number of major fires; a threat of closure in the 1980’s, and requisition by the Royal Navy during World War 2. There is now an RNLI lifeboat station at the pier head, which was built in 2000.
Southend Council are currently promoting the pier as part of its tourism drive, and for the time-being at least its future looks safe.
Oh, the length of the pier? It’s 1.341 miles long. For the metric heads, that’s 2,158 meters. It’s about a 25 minute walk.
By Eyebee, on May 11th, 2008
OK. I spoke too soon. we went out for breakfast this morning, and then I decided to have a Sunday drive. Not something we do too often now, with time constraints and the price of gas, but it’s nice to get away from the keyboard every now and again!
We’d eaten breakfast at Flowertown in Summerville, and then we headed out across country, through Knightsville, and then onto Alt-17, which we followed all the way to Walterboro.
Then on through Hendersonville, which is a very pretty place, and down to Highway 17 itself. 
Heading back north up 17, we took a detour to Bear Island, taking numerous photographs along the way, and stopping at the little store by the dock to get a drink and some chips.
After that we headed back to Highway 17, and continued north back home.
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