I love this place – Edisto Beach State Park at Edisto
Beach, SC. That is pronounced ED-iss-toe, a Native American word. I could stay
here for a long time, but 4 days is all I could get. It was all booked up after
that.
Also, I met several lovely women at Edisto, all of
whom I wish I could get to know better -- and one of whom I wish I knew her well
enough and long enough to call her my best friend.
The Environmental Learning Center is beautiful. It
was built in 2004, but looks brand new. It was built with many green ideas,
such as water-collection barrels and geothermal heating and cooling.
I took part in several classes, all led by Ranger
Ashby Gale. (He was a graduate of Appalachian State.) He taught “What’s on the Menu for Lunch,” “Ravenous Reptiles,” and something
about birds – I can’t remember the name.
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| Ranger Ashby Gale teaches a child. |
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| Ranger Ash with a horseshoe crab. |
The walking trails are lovely, wide, and firmly
packed; but instead of painted blazes marking the trails, they use
diamond-shaped metal plates, some of which are missing. Ex-Governor Mark Sanford was a hiker on the Appalachian Trail (snark), so you would think he would have known about painted blazes.
On one of my walks, I saw vultures eating a deer -- the cycle of life continued.
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| They waited for me to pass. |
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| Vultures eating. |
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Various scenes from Edisto:
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| The causeway |
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| Fiddler crabs -- just spots until they all moved -- and that took me by surprise. |
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| Salt marsh |
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| Sunrise |
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