Fort Moultrie & Fort Sumter

We've been seeing a few tourist destinations in between visiting with Michael and taking care of other business. Here is a picture of the Charleston harbor - that's the Arthur Ravenal bridge in the background.
This picture is taken from Sullivan's Island - it's of the intracoastal waterway but if you look closely in the background you can see the same bridge as in the picture above.

Downtown Charleston from the water side.

Fort Sumter - there are two forts at the entrance to Charleston harbor - this one requires a boat ride to it. The second one is Fort Moultrie and it's on Sullivan's island.

The first shots of the civil war were fired here in 1861 - the Union army held the Fort for 34 hours before surrendering to the Confederate army. The Confederate's held the fort for 4 years until the end of the war.

When the Fort was first built the walls were 50 ft high at low tide.

These 1/2 circles were where the gun turrets sat and moved from side to side.

This is Fort Moultrie (on Sullivan's Island) looking over from Fort Sumter. My camera was on max zoom.

The original fort was built in 1776 - Palmetto logs where used for the walls and reportedly the British bombs bounced off the fort.

The fort has been rebuilt several times over the years but has not been used as a post since the 1960's.