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Navy Ship headed out to sea!
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Air Craft Carrier - The Yorktown
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Planes and Choppers on the Yorktown
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They launch fireworks off the front of the Yorktown on 4th of July. It's beautiful!
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Besides touring the Yorktown you can also tour a Submarine, Coast Guard Cutter, and a Destroyer.
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Naval ship
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Fort Sumter is in the distance.
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Naval ship...we can catch it!
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Bird buzzing the water looking for fish to catch.
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Fort Sumter from the ferry.
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Lightohouse in the distance.
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Getting closer to Fort Sumter!
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....and closer....
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This is where we just came from.
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View to the South West of Fort Sumter. We weren't sure what the bright reflecting building is, but it was pretty neat.
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We finally arrived at Fort Sumter!
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Jay poses for a picture.
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Fort Sumter sign.
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Cindy poses for picture.
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One of many cannon pictures that we took. Pretty impressive looking!
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Inside Fort Sumter.
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Another view of Fort Sumter.
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And another...
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Laura's sneaking around the ruins. She just looks guilty doesn't she?
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Another picture from behind the brick ruins.
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Sign about the Battery Huger
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Sign about Fort Sumter.
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Fort Sumter Today sign.
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Jay's looking mischievious!
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They told us we couldn't play "ON" the cannons, they didn't say anything about shooting Laura...
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Or climbing inside. Jerry, are you lighting that?
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Baby cannon compared to those others!
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Actual round lodged inside this wall.
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This is what the inside of the cannon barrel looked like.
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We're trying to figure out how this all worked and Jerry's looking to see where that bar attaches.
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...and this is where it attached.
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More views of the cannon
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Can you imagine the deafning noise and echoes of these things???
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Hi Laura.
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Jay's looking this one over, but Jerry must've set it up because it's aimed the wrong way!
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Sign explaining about the cannons.
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Lined up and ready for action.
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View from the top looking South East (I think)
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View from the top looking North East (I think). The guide said the Hunley sunk about 4 miles off the point.
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Flags frying above the Fort.
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Closer look at some of the flags.
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Looks like maybe a naval weather station?
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Ship way off in the distance headed for Charleston.
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Sign about the H.L. Hunley.
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Sign about controlling the harbor.
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As soon as Laura disappeared a school of about 10 dolphins showed up.
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more dolphins
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more dolphins.
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more dolphins.
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Jerry & Laura pose for a picture.
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You can see the Yorktown and the marina in this picture.
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Here comes the big container ship that was way off in the distance when we were looking at the dolphins.
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Jerry is afraid we're going to try and cut in front of the big ship
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Yorktown again.
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To Jerry's relief, we waited on the big ship.
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It continues to make it's way down to port.
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There's the Coast Guard Cutter you can tour with the Destroyer on the other side of it.
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Awesome looking aircraft on the Yorktown
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More pictures of the Yorktown from our ferry.
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You can see the Coast Guard ship and Destroyer in this one too.
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More views of the ships.
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Look at the size of the anchor!
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Good thing this one isn't moving! I love this view though!
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One last Yorkown picture
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Aaaarrrrrrrrrr!
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