2015-10 FL Trip – FL

The 1st wo campground we stayed at during our trip to FL is as follows: 2015-10-28 – NC Roanoke Rapids – Carlina Crossroads and 2015-11-04 – SC Dillon – Bass Lake Campground

On 2015-11-11 we moved to MA Oaks at South Point, Yemassee, SC. We drove to Charleston, SC area on 2015-11-15 to see Fort Sumter NM – Fort Moultrie and Charleston Lighthouse on Sullivan’s Island. Fort Moultrie is a series of fortifications on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, built to protect the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The first fort, formerly named Fort Sullivan, built of palmetto logs, inspired the flag and nickname of South Carolina, as “The Palmetto State”. The fort was renamed for the U.S. patriot commander in the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, General William Moultrie. During British occupation, in 1780–1782, the fort was known as Fort Arbuthnot. In 1960, the Department of Defense transferred Fort Moultrie to the National Park Service. NPS manages the historic fort as a unit of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park.[20] NPS has interpreted the fort as a tour backward in time from its defenses from World War II to the original palmetto log fort constructed by William Moultrie. The preserved Harbor Entrance Control Post and BCN 520 (now a private residence) are the main relics of the World War II era.

The modern monolithic Sullivan’s Island Lighthouse, the last major lighthouse built by the federal government, resembles an air traffic control tower more than a traditional lighthouse. The tower’s unique triangular shape, with one point directed towards the ocean, allows it to withstand winds of up to 125 miles per hour.
Sullivan’s Island Range in 1885. When erosion threatened Morris Island Lighthouse, located south of Charleston Harbor, the decision was made to construct a replacement beacon on Sullivan’s Island, north of the harbor’s entrance. Although the triangular tower, built of concrete and steel and clad in a skin of aluminum, doesn’t have much Southern charm, it does have some redeeming qualities. Inside the tower, the keepers of the light are treated to air conditioning and an elevator that offers a leisurely, seventy-four-second trip skyward. After the elevator ride, however, it is still necessary to scale a twenty-five-foot vertical ladder to reach the lantern room, where a powerful light source is housed.
When first activated on June 15, 1962, the lighthouse featured an amazing twenty-eight million candlepower light, produced by carbon arc lamps costing $900 apiece, that was the second brightest in the western hemisphere. This powerful beam proved dangerous to its keepers and bothersome to its neighbors. In order to access the lantern room when the powerful lamps were lit, keepers were required to don an asbestos welding suit. To pacify neighbors, plate steel was installed in the landward side of the lantern room. The beacon was downgraded a decade later to a light of just over a million candlepower. Visible from twenty-six miles, the light now has a unique flashing characteristic consisting of a 0.2-second flash, a 4.8-second eclipse, another 0.2-second flash, and a 24.8-second eclipse. + Charleston Lighthouse was originally painted white and red-orange, but the coloring proved so unpopular that the tower’s daymark was soon changed to the current black-top, white-bottom paint scheme.

We continue our trip to FL on 2015-11-18 by staying at Walk-A-Bout Resort in Woodbine, GA. We arrived in FL by staying at MA Three Flags Resort in Wildwood, FL. We left there and on 11/29/2015 moved to have a larger Converter put in the RV at Alliance RV also in Wildwood, FL. Our last move for the year was on 12/05/2015 to Encore Terra Ceia in Palmetto, FL o see our doctors.

Safe Travels