The downtown waterfront is only part of the total waterfront picture of Charleston and the adjoining smaller communities that make up Charleston County. There are lakes within the city, and there are rivers that run through the city, and there are islands that are part of the city (and some that aren't) .... and there are inlets and there are small peninsulas -- (Charleston itself is on a peninsula) -- and.... there are many, many miles of waterfront!
Here's a popular beach at Isle of Palms.
While the scenery in "Porgy and Bess" was inspired by an area of downtown Charleston, George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward (a native of Charleston and the author of the novel, Porgy), chose to spend the summer of 1934 on a barrier island ten miles from downtown. Folly Beach (adjacent to James Island, which is now part of the city of Charleston), is where they settled in and began to write the opera. Porgy, the character in the novel and the opera, was modeled after Samuel Smalls, who was a well-known character in the area in the 1920s. He is buried in the graveyard of James Island Presbyterian Church.
This is the pier at Folly Beach just about at sunset ...
another good place to walk (and also to eat!)
At the end of the road at Folly Beach, a long natural walking path of deep, loose sand, with nothing much to look at along the way, eventually opens up to this hidden beach...
...and a view from there of the Morris Island lighthouse.
After all that walking, it's time
to give the feet a rest
and have another nourishment break. One of the many popular
places to eat in Charleston is not so accessible by foot,
but it has a
large parking lot and its own boat dock...
and a
before, during, and after-dinner view of the Ashley River.
(A "sunset picture" means "that's all, folks!") :o)
