As I awoke the next morning 12/7/07, I noticed something strange? I wasn't freezing my butt off; it was actually a decent tempurature. Cpt. Randi and Ms. Clarice told us to start getting ready to go out to eat with Ms. Clarice's brother and his wife. It was there anniversery. We met them at IHOP where we ate a good, big breakfast and went back to the boat. The boat had to be moved to another spot in the marina because the guy who owned the slip we where in was on his way back earlier than they thought. Robert, Cpt.Randy and I moved the baot while Ms. Clarice, her brother, Bruce, and his wife, Joan, waited on the dock. It was an easy place to dock so we had no problems. Around 1:00 P.M. Ms. Clarice, Joan, Robert and I left to catch the ferry to Fort Sumter National Monument. Fort Sumter is a historical site in Charleston, South Caralina where during the Civil War the Southern Confederate Army demanded for the Union Army to evacuate the fort; the North refused so the Confederate's bombarded the fort for two days in April 12,1861. The Union finally vacated and the Confederates took it over and for two years until Feb. 17, 1865, over 46,000 shells and almost 75 million pounds of medal had been fired at the fort. The tour was very educational and the Park Ranger said that the fort was used in World War II as well before they officially turned it into a monument. The ferry took us back to the docks at 4:00 p.m.. Cpt. Randi and Mr. Bruce where ready to go out to dinner. We caught the trolly at six, and it took us to downtown Charleston where we ate dinner at a restaurant called A.W. Shucks. The city was lit up with Christmas lights and there where lots of people shopping. The trolly picked us back up at 8:30 p.m., and took us back to the marina so we could go to sleep.

It was time to say goodbye to Charleston and look forward to Bucksport. December 8,'07 we got ready to leave Charleston Harbor Marina. I checked both of our engines and got them ready to go. Today, I was going to take the boat out of the marina Cpt. Randy told me to put the starboard engine in reverse so I did and the boat was not reacting correctly so Cpt. Randy took the helm and us away from the dock. As soon as we left the marina we got all of our lines stowed away and dolphins where already riding our bow. Throughout the day we stayed in skinny channels and about seven times that day groups of dolphins would come up to our boat and ride our bow. I haven't seen so many dolphins anywhere else outside of the I.C.W. not even at Sea World. The dolphins really like our boat and as we went further north the water seems to get clearer and you can see them under the water before they even get to the boat. Driving from the flybridge is where you really get to see all of the river, also how the land changes and the different style houses. The weather was warm and tropical all day. It was unusual. We were able to eat lunch on the flybridge. The sun was just starting to go down as we came around the last few bends to Bucksport Marina, when we came in to dock a man was there to get our lines. We decided to get to bed early tonight and catch up on some sleep.