On the boat in Charleston

Two of our friends here in Mt. Pleasant (in our neighborhood actually), Erik and PJ Norlander, generously invited Lynn and I to go out on their boat with them yesterday for Sea Ray's Aquapalooza event. For the event, people basically drive their boats out to Morris Island, park them all around this barge where bands are playing live music, and just hang out in the water, on the beach or in their boats.

It's about a 30 minute boat ride out to Morris Island from Daniel Island, where the boat was docked, and we got out there around 11:00. We had the boat parked near the barge until around 3, when Erik took us out to Morris lighthouse (about a 20 minute ride through open ocean). After Lynn had a slight bout with nausea from the choppy waters, we rode back towards Daniel Island where we stopped and swam with a pack of dolphins (amazingly, they got within about 15-20 feet of us). We then got the wakeboard out, being that we were in calmer waters, and PJ, Katie (Erik's daughter) and I all did some wakeboarding before heading back in around 7:30 pm.

The result of being out on the boat the entire day were some sunburned bodies (even though we lathered and re-lathered), but it was definitely worth it. We're hoping there will be more trips like this later in the summer. If so, I think we could really start getting used to this Charleston place...

Out on the boat in the morning

PJ enjoying being out on the water!

Wakeboarding at Sunset

- MB