Charleston, SC tides.

We're on "floating docks" which are by far the best because you don't have to worry about tying the boat so it can go up and down with the tides. You just tie to the dock and the dock goes up and down. There is about a 5 ft. tide here, and 7 ft. tides in Beaufort yesterday. You can see the dock pilings way above the boat in the top picture at low tide, but about even with the top of the boat in the bottom picture as the docks rise to high tide. Most of the good marinas on the southeast coast have had floating docks.

Oysters anyone??? There are thousands of them clustered all over the dock legs, exposed at low tide.

But at high tide, they're happily filtering the Ashley rider tidewaters.

Hey look at all the extra unused docks at our marina!

But at low tide, you can see why they're unused. They've been silted in by the river and there's no water at high tide, just pure mud. That blue sailboat has about 4 ft. of keel stuck in the mud! The river probably silts in these docks too fast to keep them dredged.

We did go see Battery Park (Yup...like New York City, it's where the artillery tp protect the harbor used to be).
There is a statue to honor the fallen heroes of the Confederacy with a statement to the effect that we should count them happy as they had faith and beleived in their cause and endured a great fight.

And we walked the seawall wall along the waterfront in front of the Victorian homes overlooking the bay. Many had a view of of Fort Sumter across the bay. This evening, we went to a very Southern style restaurant for dinner.