Shem Creek - A seafood-lover's paradise!

After an awesome 4 days of Tall Ships in Charleston’s harbor, if you still can’t get enough of these majestic vessels, you can take a ride on local favorite, The Schooner Pride, this Saturday, July 4th.

The Schooner Pride will be departing from the Aquarium Wharf at 360 Concord Street – to the left of the S.C. Aquarium – on July 4th at 7:00 PM and returning at 9:00. If the Patriot’s Point fireworks haven’t started yet, guests will be able to stay on board and watch from the dock – about the best seat you can get for this amazing show!

Tickets are only $42 per person and reservations are strongly recommended. They only have 49 seats available, and like always, it will be sold out!

Tickets can be purchased at www.schoonerpride.com or by calling 843-722-1112 or 800-979-3370.

Happy sailing!

NO, it’s not an April Fool’s joke in the middle of May, but thanks to PlanetInAction (via gearthblog), this amazing FREE Ship Simulator game lets you take the helm of several kinds of ships, including:

1. an airship,
2. a fuel ship,
3. a container ship, and
4. the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship!

What’s really amazing is the realism and visual & sound effects, which are based on Google Earth’s new visualization platform. It looks like the Charleston cruise ship business we’re hearing may move to Mt. Pleasant is now one step closer – something that would fit in great for Shem Creek Park patrons (if the water were deep enough of course) – people could just hang out in the park against the ocean and jump on their cruise ship to wherever when it leaves!

Back to reality, here’s a short video about “Ships”:

Thanks to Google’s latest Earth API release, it all runs in your browser via a geplugin.exe – which is currently using 23852K of RAM on my system – if you have the goods, it sure is cool!

UPDATE: Celebrity Cruises to call on Charleston – Celebrity Cruises has announced new sailings to the Caribbean from the Port of Charleston, a needed boon as the S.C. State Ports Authority bids adieu to its largest cruise customer, Norwegian Majesty. This fall, Celebrity Cruises marks its return to Charleston, kicking off a series of port calls that will continue through early next year and resume next fall. Norwegian Majesty made its last stop in Charleston on Friday.