Georgetown Wooden Boat Show Part 1 - Saturday - October 15, 2011

Nancy here: 
I am really late getting this blog posted.  Bill had this written a week ago. I have no real good excuse, but I have two to try. 

Excuse one: We now have a computer doing our work schedules and it has me scheduled all kinds of crazy hours.  I am having trouble adjusting to not having a routine in my work-life;o))  Just kinda out of sorts;o((

Excuse two: Just so many great pictures I had trouble narrowing it down to the large number I will be posting ;o))  In fact, there are so many that I will breaking the blog into two parts!!

PART  ONE – Before and After the Boat Show

Nancy and I woke up to a beautiful morning with the temperature about 60 degrees and no wind or rain. We got on our bikes and took a 15 mile ride before the wind started to pick up. Talk about a perfect morning for a bike ride!

 We enjoyed the Halloween decorations our neighbors had on display.

Even Mother Nature had her Vultures and Moon out!

After our ride, Nancy made us fruit drinks and we made plans to go to the Wooden Boat Show in Georgetown. Georgetown is about 20 – 25 miles south of our house.

Crossing the bridge into Georgetown

We were heading to the Historic Waterfront for the show.

The show was all along Front Street and the Harbor Walk.

Click on any photo to enlarge.

Map of Georgetown Historic District

Parking was not available along the streets,

so we headed to East Bay Park along Wynyah Bay.

There was a small farmers market going on

at East Bay Park when we arrived.

 

After we parked, we walked down River Street through

this beautiful canopy of Live Oak Trees to get to Front Street.

We continued on past the commercial marina

where we saw this Shrimping Boat.

As we turned onto Meeting Street to get to Front Street, we saw this relic.

Doesn’t it look like Noah’s Arc with sails!

Now for an unexpected surprise.  We have never walked the street of Georgetown before.  Little did we know that there were so many beautiful restored homes. Most of the homes we saw were built around 1900.

Our walked down Front Street to the show

took a little longer than we thought it might;o))While we certainly enjoyed seeing these beautiful homes, we really are not interested in all the work and money

it takes to maintain them ;o))

Just before we reached the boat show, we saw this Pirate

explaining something to these tourists!

Here is the start of the boat show on Front Street.

Part two of this blog will be all the photos of the Boat Show. 

So fast forward through the boat show and

we are heading back to our car at East Bay Park.

Back down the other side of Front Street to see more beautiful homes.

Then one more beautiful tree lined street

before we get to East Bay Park. 

We walked right down the middle of the street

 to truly enjoy their canopy!!

We got our car and headed to Morgan Park on Wynyah Bay for lunch.

At the entrance to Morgan Park was a plaque

dedicating the park to William Doyle Morgan.

 

Heading out to the picnic area on Wynyah Bay.

Beautiful spot to enjoy our late lunch!!

As we headed back to the car,

we saw lots of boats and boat houses along the water.

Driving out of Georgetown,

just one more beautiful tree lined street :o))

What a great day!!

We will certainly make it a point to come back and

see the show if we are around here next year.

A nice surprise for a small local show!

Nancy Here:

The real surprise is that you saw none of the boat show.

Hope to get that posted soon....promise ;o))