Picture Tag

Here is Tricia Clark's picture tag!! Its the fifth folder and the seventh picture.
This was taken at a place called Cyprus Gardens in Charleston South Carolina. Its where they filmed The Patriot and North and South and my favorite movie ever - The Notebook scene where Noah takes Allie on the boat and they see all the ducks and it starts to rain. BTW those ducks are not there in real life. They were brought in for the movie.
Anyway, that is a baby Crocodile that my dear crazy husband tried to wrangle. They got close (they: meaning him and Korbin who was only TWO) enough to pet him but he then slithered away into the black abyss of the waters. We loved that place and had a yearly pass. It had a little aquarium and reptile zoo. When we took this picture we were on a little flat bottomed paddle boat that you could take out yourself or a guided tour. There were some pretty amazing natural 'features' about Cyprus Gardens such as why the water is black. Its is from the roots of the trees that dye's the water such as tea steeps in your mug. There are a abundance of crocks who are so used to the boats sometimes they swim right along and you might never notice and in the middle of the lake thing was this huge burnt down church that looked as if it was from before the Revolutionary War. Well- It was and it wasn't. What people are actually looking at is a Styrofoam and plywood set from movie The Patriot. When the militia goes in hiding and Mel Gibson's character is melting down his son's toy soldiers for bullets. Well they are supposed to be in the remains of a actual old church that was nearby but now its private property. So they got permission to build it there. It was such a tourist attraction that the Cyprus Gardens Manager convinced them to leave it. It has fallen down since but it still gave a bit of historical romance and reverence to the dark water and bright blue sky's. I miss going there. I think it was one of the happiest times in my life.