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| Botany Bay WMA, Edisto Island, SC. | Panasonic DMC-ZS3
4.1mm 1/320th -1ev F4 ISO80
EGeezer
 | Love it! I'd not heard of this area, so it's now a planned destination.
Did you stop for lunch at Po Pigs Bo-B-Q on 174? Looks like nothing special from the outside, just a convenience store with the eatery on the end of the building. Inside is great southern food and sweet tea.
Found the directions to Botany Bay WMA entrance;
Directions: To reach the entrance to Botany Bay Plantation WMA, travel south on SC 174 toward Edisto Beach. About 8.7miles south of the McKinley Washington Bridge, turn left onto Botany Bay road. This intersection is marked by a sign for the Allen AME Church and a "bottle tree" across the street from the turn.
Follow this dirt road 1.5 miles to near the dead end.
Turn left at the gate into the property. Sign in at the kiosk.
Follow the plantation road 1.7 miles, then turn right at a sign for the beach. Park in the parking area hey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @03:37PM
| jaykaykay
 | Rugged, beautiful looking beach. Are those shells or rock on the sand? I really like the light play you got on the trees and beach. hey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @04:19PM
| rockhounds_5
 | Egeezer, those directions are accurate. It's a long drive from Hwy 17 (called the Savannah Highway if you're headed to Savannah and the Charleston Highway if your headed to Charleston!). Dirt road is not in too bad a shape. Bit of washboarding in places. The walk from the parking area to the beach is about 0.5 miles, and wear good shoes as there are rocks and shells in cement for the path and it hurts if you wear crocs or sandals. Do not bring a really fine camera out there as there is always a wind blowing off the ocean laden with salt spray. A P & S camera is best. The walk takes you though a salt marsh which is gorgeous. We went around 7 pm. I was able to catch the magic hour around sunset and got some fabulous lighting.
JKK, those are shells - mostly oyster, but there were conchs, whelks, sand dollars, and many other shells I didn't or couldn't identify. We've been going to BBWMA since it opened. We've been there three times. I've NEVER seen this many shells before. The quality of the conchs and whelks was outstanding. Unfortunately, it is against the law to take any ($470 fine). They say that severe beach erosion has ripped up many of the oyster beds and that the rip currents are severe and bringing up all sorts of stuff. There were piles of these shells almost 3 feet high in places. Many people arrange the shells on the dead palmettos and oaks which is allowed. That makes for some pretty photos. I'll be posting more soon.
Thanks for looking!
»www.preserveedisto.org/B ··· WMA.htmlhey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @06:03PM
| ryzst
 | Botany Bay? Where are all the Australians in leg irons?
To the point. This looks like a huge die-off of the oyster and mussel beds. Not good.
Could it be a delayed reaction to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco? Or just more empirical evidence of global warming?hey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @08:28PM
| Hiker
 | This is very nice... hey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @08:55PM
| rockhounds_5
| ryzst, my thoughts too. Although coastal erosion could be causing this in part. There is no drilling off the Atlantic coast. Perhaps some of the oil from the GoM could have been picked up by the gulf stream. Or there could be something else in the water. Beach erosion, however, is a natural process that has been happening for a very long time and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. hey mods · » Sunday July 22nd, @09:56PM
| EGeezer
| Beach erosion on the SC Islands is a problem. Hunting Island in Beaufort county SC is losing 15 feet a year. but That's being mitigated in aprt by the groin fields and sand replenishment.
There used to be several beachside cabins there, but I believe there's only one left.
If you're still in the area, you may want to stop by there and check out the park and lighthouse. You can also drive to Land's End and Fort Fremont. Scenery is wonderful. hey mods · » Monday July 23rd, @01:24AM
| rockhounds_5
| We did go to Beaufort, St. Helena Island, and Hunting Island. I can say for sure that the beach erosion is much more severe. Many more drowned oaks, pines, and palmettos out in the surf. The had a very large groin device running out to sea. Don't know if it's working. Doubtful. The lighthouse was designed to be moved, which it was, a while back. It is made of steel plate and a steel skeleton that was designed to be moved.
I'll post some photos I took there.
»www.huntingisland.com/light.htmhey mods · » Monday July 23rd, @08:21AM
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