I didn’t have a clear view of the sunrise when I went to Bear Island, but a few weeks prior I had scouted out Sunrise Park (now called the Melton Peter Demetre Park) to see what it could offer. From here, the sun actually rises and sets out of frame, but my biggest takeaway didn’t concern the sunrise itself.

It didn’t bother me that the sunrise wasn’t as spectacular as I suspected the previous morning’s would have been, but solitary except for the bugs, from this vantage point I determined that Charleston is flat.