Caching in Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Isle of Palms & Sullivan Island.

RAINY RAINY night and morning and I mean it rained. It let up about 9;00 so we decided to give it a try as we really wanted to find the Charleston Under Siege cache located on the peninsula in downtown Charleston. We think we have the coords right now that we renumbered the PT Boats, so we set out for downtown. We did find it and it really made our day as it was a very difficult puzzle cache to do.
Then it was on to Mt. pleasant and I'ON which is a nationally recognized low country village known for its thoughtful planning, uncomplicated elegance and its remarkable architectural and natural beauty, shimmering lakes and salty creeks, fine eateries and offices you can walk to, and ample spaces to play founded in 1995. Pedestrian trails along the are patterned after the "towpaths" used by horses and mules to pull barges along the canals in the 19th century. I'ON has a club which has a pool, tennis, fitness rooms, and a conference and reception site which houses 2 grand fireplaces and deep wraparound porches. There are only 21 builders who are allowed to do construction in I'ON. It has 2 restaurants, many shops a church a Montessori School, a wildlife refuge, 2 lakes, 5 miles of soft walking trails and 12 miles of paved trails. Homes range anywhere from 2500 square feet for $800,000 to 7500 square feet for $3,000,000. We found 3 caches there one on a trail out into the marsh, one in a playground and one in a quaint little garden set behind peoples house and it even had a potting shed where the residents go to plant flowers.
Then it was on to the Isle of Palms and a cache located in a small park on the corner of the main street. We continued on to Sullivan's Island which is a barrier island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. The island got its name from Captain Florence O'Sullivan who was stationed as a lighthouse keeper in the late 17th century. The new Charleston Light was built in 1962 and is a 140' tall triangular with an elevator rather than a spiral staircase and the second cache we found on the island was located near this lighthouse on the beach. It was also the largest slave port in North America. Sullivan's Island is also the home of Fort Moultrie which was the first fort on the island and was still incomplete when Commodore Sir Peter Parker and 9 warships attacked it on June 28, 1776. After a 9 hour battle the ships were forced to retire and Charleston was saved from British occupation, and the fort was named in honor of its commander Colonel William Moultrie. After the revolution it was neglected and by 1791 little remained. Over the years new forts were built as needed and then neglected when they weren't needed and along with them being destroyed by hurricanes there was always a need to build new forts. Fort Moultrie was modernized in 1870 with huge new cannons being installed and magazines and bombproofs were built of thick concrete and then buried under tons of earth to absorb the explosion of heavy shells. Today Fort Moultrie has been restored to portray the major periods of its history. It was very interesting seeing the huge cannons and the earth covered bomb shelters. The virtual cache was located at the fort and had to do with the burial place of Chief Oceola a Seminole Indian who died at Fort Moultrie on Jan. 30, 1838. The American forces invited Oceola to talk under a white truce flag and then took him captive and he died in prison. The last cache on the island was located in a park near a soccer field.
One last cache on our way out of Mt. Pleasant and that was at a sweetgrass basket stand along Rt 17 N. We did try to do one other puzzle cache that had to do with historical marker signs. We got it all figured out and went to the final location and couldn't find the cache. When we got back to the RV we found out that everybody was having a problem finding it as the person that did the cache had his coords anywhere from 75-120' off. Well back to the RV and dinner and tomorrow we are heading for Tybee Island, GA. Everybody stay well and we love you all.

The picture list is as follows: 1st,2nd,3rd on left-Fort Moultrie, 1st on right Charleston Light, 2nd & 3rd on right Fort Moultrie, 4th on left an old church that had been turned into a home, 4th on right and 5th on left Stella Maris Church established in 1845.