April 19 Church and Charlotte

We went to church, but only Sacrament meeting.  That was my doing.  We were going to be short on time here in Charlotte.  We went to the Harbor Tour, which was very beautiful and the best part was seeing all the Atlantic Bottle-nosed Dolphins in the water, as they approached the ship.  I even saw one with a calf.  Amazing!!   After the tour we walked over to the Ft. Sumter visitor's center and viewed the  Civil War exhibits.  Then we went to where the carriage rides start and took that 1 hour tour.  It was a comfortable carriage with 4 bench seats.  Ours was pulled by two mules, a white one named  Libby and a brown one named Aladdin.  Our tour guide, Marshall, was very interesting,  Charleston is a beautiful city, full of history.  On place, White Garden, looks like an ordinary park.  It used to be the waterfront before the land was expanded by men by about 3 blocks.  It was a pile of oyster shells, so it was bleached white in the sun. Near it was pluff mud, which I  guess is soft and sticky.  Many pirates were hung there, left there for a week hanging.  Then they would throw their bodies in the mud so they couldn't be part of the sea or the land.  Their bodies would sink into the mud.  So when they made the man-made land and covered that over they made the park.  They figure there are hundreds of pirate's bones under it.   After the carriage ride we drove around to see some of it again and the parked and walked through the market.