And, we're off to Charleston, and the Charleston City Marina, home of the Mega Dock!
The marina is huge and the Mega Dock lives up to the name!! The transient dock itself is a quarter mile long and you're not out of the marina yet. Due to it's deep harbor, many truly large private vessels come into port here. One of our neighbors was the yacht, Grand Finale and can be seen on the web by googling, Grand Finale yacht. The marina offers a shuttle service departing every hour to all the local sites. They even came to our boat with a golf cart to take us to the shuttle stop. On Labor Day, we took full advantage of this service and did it all. We took a carriage ride and our guide was a college history major, sampled the fare of a shop featuring local Carolina wines, browsed the extensive market house, took a ferry to Fort Sumter, the site of the first shots of the War of Northern Aggression, (Civil War to us from the north), ferried over to Patriots Point and toured the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown. Earlier in the day, while on the carriage tour, we passed a restaurant called Jestine's Kitchen. The guide made the comment, "When there's a line outside Jestine's, the only thing it means is they're open". We thought we would end our Labor Day holiday with dinner at Jestine's and, because it was now after marina hours, called a cab. We pulled up to Jestine's only to view a sign saying, CLOSED. Not open on Monday's!! Now what?? We're sitting in a cab with the meter running. Cabbie says, there's a restaurant on the next corner I like a lot. Off we go to Sermet's. Now, it took a while, but we finally noticed that the colorful art on the walls were all signed "Sermet". Here, the owner was the artist and the chef!! The food was gourmet: seacakes with avocado ravioli in cream ginger sauce. All and all, a delightful experience. We stayed a little latter on Tuesday, and returned to Jestine's Kitchen for lunch for the best "soul food" ever. Now, of course, the local chamber instructs guides to refer to this style of cooking as "Carolina Cuisine"!
The marina is huge and the Mega Dock lives up to the name!! The transient dock itself is a quarter mile long and you're not out of the marina yet. Due to it's deep harbor, many truly large private vessels come into port here. One of our neighbors was the yacht, Grand Finale and can be seen on the web by googling, Grand Finale yacht. The marina offers a shuttle service departing every hour to all the local sites. They even came to our boat with a golf cart to take us to the shuttle stop. On Labor Day, we took full advantage of this service and did it all. We took a carriage ride and our guide was a college history major, sampled the fare of a shop featuring local Carolina wines, browsed the extensive market house, took a ferry to Fort Sumter, the site of the first shots of the War of Northern Aggression, (Civil War to us from the north), ferried over to Patriots Point and toured the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown. Earlier in the day, while on the carriage tour, we passed a restaurant called Jestine's Kitchen. The guide made the comment, "When there's a line outside Jestine's, the only thing it means is they're open". We thought we would end our Labor Day holiday with dinner at Jestine's and, because it was now after marina hours, called a cab. We pulled up to Jestine's only to view a sign saying, CLOSED. Not open on Monday's!! Now what?? We're sitting in a cab with the meter running. Cabbie says, there's a restaurant on the next corner I like a lot. Off we go to Sermet's. Now, it took a while, but we finally noticed that the colorful art on the walls were all signed "Sermet". Here, the owner was the artist and the chef!! The food was gourmet: seacakes with avocado ravioli in cream ginger sauce. All and all, a delightful experience. We stayed a little latter on Tuesday, and returned to Jestine's Kitchen for lunch for the best "soul food" ever. Now, of course, the local chamber instructs guides to refer to this style of cooking as "Carolina Cuisine"!
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