Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina
Taking off from our regularly scheduled posts to tell you about a recent trip we took to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary. (on 11/17 you can read a life update & all about my November "OwlCrate" unboxing on my other blog "Hike2Forty and beyond") The planned: head to Rice, Texas to pick up our "Casita" 17 Independence Deluxe & enjoy the sights going & coming home. (I'll show ya pics of our "Cozy Casa" soon.) Let me say, I know I have said it before & I will probably say it again soon enough... that when we travel we seem to bring rain with us every where we go, so if you are out there & you want rain give me a call asap!! I am open for booking & a small fee needs to be included. thanks. We took rain to Texas & I hope they were happy about it, We were not happy but we made the best of it. Here's the rain schedule, rained every single day (maybe not constantly but pretty darn close.) but the 1/2 day when we 1st got to Hunting Island, stayed 1 night left in the AM, the 2 days we spent in Big Bend, Texas. We even have had rain when we arrived back at home in VA. WHAT???! You begin to wonder what the sun looks like? I mean come on??! Are we in Ireland or what? A rain forest?
On the way home... worried/concerned about all the recent flooding in South Carolina, wondering if the state park would be there when we arrived? Let me tell ya even though South Carolina is considered the "low country", it stuck it out & has very little damage. Every time we stay at this park we always reserve a spot, it's just always booked up, it's just that great, book a spot months in advance, promise you will LOVE IT!
-- Normally there are a few big tree laying down on the beach as you walk to the lighthouse, but after the recent storms there were tons more trees & limbs. The mosquitoes were nuts!!! If you stayed near the water where all the winds were you were ok. I guess mosquitoes can not fly in wind?
-- 1 is seagull. 1 crane lower below in another pic. Are those wrens, whatever those beach birds are called, darn they can run fast, fly away too quick, I am not fast enough, I try to be super quiet & sneaky, it still doesn't work? nuts, you photography gurus are too cool for me, do you wear camouflage or what?
-- See the sand spider?
-- You may have noticed the picture of me making footprints in the sand (yep, that is 1 of my favorite poems), I had to hoist my pant legs up to walk through the water & the hubby forgot to tell me he took this picture, silly man, & yes, I do stop shaving my legs at the end of October until spring time when I wear skirts or shorts again, don't like it, lump it. HA. ha!! Shaving is overrated any ways, you give up the silly stuff when you are camping. This chick doesn't take life too seriously, I mean come on??! Why worry about it??! Have you ever tried to shave in a campground shower, when you are paying for the shower water? Now if only I could go braless, nope, not going to happen ...I guess I am not that cool. Still to darn shy. I will wear white after labor day, but some thing you just got to put your foot down. I can go without makeup or washing my hair. Ok, ok, I know ..."E" - nough said.
-- Yes, you can walk to the lighthouse from the campground, there's a fee to enter but not the surrounding grounds.
-- Normally there are a few big tree laying down on the beach as you walk to the lighthouse, but after the recent storms there were tons more trees & limbs. The mosquitoes were nuts!!! If you stayed near the water where all the winds were you were ok. I guess mosquitoes can not fly in wind?
-- 1 is seagull. 1 crane lower below in another pic. Are those wrens, whatever those beach birds are called, darn they can run fast, fly away too quick, I am not fast enough, I try to be super quiet & sneaky, it still doesn't work? nuts, you photography gurus are too cool for me, do you wear camouflage or what?
-- See the sand spider?
-- You may have noticed the picture of me making footprints in the sand (yep, that is 1 of my favorite poems), I had to hoist my pant legs up to walk through the water & the hubby forgot to tell me he took this picture, silly man, & yes, I do stop shaving my legs at the end of October until spring time when I wear skirts or shorts again, don't like it, lump it. HA. ha!! Shaving is overrated any ways, you give up the silly stuff when you are camping. This chick doesn't take life too seriously, I mean come on??! Why worry about it??! Have you ever tried to shave in a campground shower, when you are paying for the shower water? Now if only I could go braless, nope, not going to happen ...I guess I am not that cool. Still to darn shy. I will wear white after labor day, but some thing you just got to put your foot down. I can go without makeup or washing my hair. Ok, ok, I know ..."E" - nough said.
-- Yes, you can walk to the lighthouse from the campground, there's a fee to enter but not the surrounding grounds.
We have stayed in this state park over 5 times, "Hunting Island State Park", South Carolina, one of the greatest state parks in the US that we have ever stayed in. The views are breathtaking & the sounds of the surf are priceless. If I could wake up to that sounds daily I think I would be in heaven. Wait then I would miss my mountains. You can have surf in the mountains, right? Please enjoy the video of the day we were there, the AM taping at the end, we both woke up super early the next morning, hoping for an awesome sunrise, sadly it was cloudy & grey (& yes it did rain, but we are part duck so it's cool, NO WORRIES.) ... but ALL DAYS ARE GOOD WHEN YOU SPEND THEM ON A BEACH, right??!
To all you folks, who read all these bits of info. THANK YOU! We had a lovely 11th wedding anniversary trip, thank you for all the comments, thank you for all the sweet messages, THANK YOU for always stopping by. I love your friendships so so much. Beth ( :
I just found this old video from Hunting Island State Park... maybe 3 or 4 years ago. & there is a sunrise in the AM, unlike this above visit. Please Enjoy! ( :
linking up to: "Good Fences" with Theresa & "Saturday's Critters" with Eileen.
To all you folks, who read all these bits of info. THANK YOU! We had a lovely 11th wedding anniversary trip, thank you for all the comments, thank you for all the sweet messages, THANK YOU for always stopping by. I love your friendships so so much. Beth ( :
I just found this old video from Hunting Island State Park... maybe 3 or 4 years ago. & there is a sunrise in the AM, unlike this above visit. Please Enjoy! ( :
linking up to: "Good Fences" with Theresa & "Saturday's Critters" with Eileen.
Comments
i enjoyed all of your images but walking barefoot on the beach was my favorite. you just can't beat it!!!
Sure was a lovely place to spend your anniversary (in spite of the rain.) Loved the Lighthouse and the driftwood, the foot prints in the sand and all the cool little shore birds.
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