Fort Moultrie

This is Fort Moultrie, on the mainland at the eastern side of Charleston harbor. There was a working fort of some kind on this site most of the time from 1776 to 1947, from the Revolutionary War to WW II. It was interesting to look at the gun emplacements from the various eras, and another thing; I've wandered around the Marin headlands, seen the old concrete forts there, and all the massive locked gates, and wondered what they originally looked like. At Fort Moultrie, you can! Many of the spaces within the batteries have been restored to their working condition, with ammo in the magazines, desks and old Life magazines (different kind of magazine) in the offices, and guns that have been restored and look new.

The outdoor picture shows some gun emplacements, and the island in the harbor is Fort Sumter, which I visited on my earlier trip here in 1999. There are still cannonballs embedded in the walls at Sumter. The indoor pic is within the fort, and shows a hoist used to lift ammunition from the magazines to the guns above.

The next two weeks I will be staying in timeshares; don't know if they have internet access. If they don't the Old Sloat will be mostly incognito. At any rate, he will be sloating on the beaches of SC and FL much of the time in the next 3 weeks.