Monday, January 1, 2018

December 27 ,2017-Jan 1, 2018 Columbia, South Carolina

Been very chilly, high in the 40's. Been holed up in the bus relaxing.

X rated sundog and the waterfall off the nature trail here in the park.


The whole campground was empty. Two campers arrive and camp on either side of us. We must be popular. We toured the State House today. This is the South Carolina flag in flowers behind the state house.

Arches in the lower lobby of the South Carolina State house. Stained glass, the bronze star is where one of the union cannon balls hit the side of it during the Civil War and a flowering bush on the grounds. 


John waving in the upper lobby and the historic library. 


One of the buildings on South Carolina University with their mascot on the bench, his name is Cocky and he is a gamecock.  The Hootie and the Blowfish monument in downtown. The band is from Columbia and got their start playing at bars in this area.

After our exhausting tours we went to the Hunter Gatherer brewery. John is with his Ye old Bastarde brew. 

58 degrees and sunny today. We went to the zoo/botanical gardens/aquarium/waterpark. The top photo is the garden gate. The red are glass balls. My Hand with a grizzly track in the zoo, a flower in the gardens, feeding a lorikeet and a pair of pythons. 


Gibbon, lorikeet, and komodo dragons. The reptiles seemed to like lying on each other. Two cottonmouth heads, geeko on the glass, flamingos, bright fish, and penguins. 

We made it to the Swamp Cabbage brewery, the last of 6 breweries in Columbia today.  John with his IPA.

Egads, it is going to be 16 degrees tonight! 36 tomorrow. 



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