Thanksgiving weekend was spent here at this Park and a good time was had by all.
Whoa! What a weekend!
Beautiful! Awesome! and Cool!
Prodigious! Phenomenal! Sensational! Spectacular! Bewitching!
Four opening lines. I have decided to use the fourth line and write this blog based on the adjectives I have found which will best describe the camping weekend spent by my wife and I. We were joined by my niece, her husband, and three children for our seventh annual Thanksgiving camping weekend. All things must come to an end and next years trip may not happen, we will see!
The SC State Parks website describes Hunting Island as, "Five miles of pristine SC beaches, thousands of acres of marsh and maritime forest, a salt water lagoon and ocean inlet are all part of the parks natural allure." I say that is prodigious!
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| Marshland |
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| Maritime Forest |
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Lagoon
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| Ocean |
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| Beach |
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| Spanish Moss |
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| Sand Dune |
What about phenomenal? one definition is "perceptible by the senses or through immediate experience." So here we go, Cool things I experienced.
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| Egret? |
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| Butterfly |
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| Egret? |
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| Dolphin |
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| Coyote |
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| Raccoon |
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| Bobcat? |
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| Coyote-Deer |
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| A trail of Raccoon Tracks |
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| This is a" Notsure!" I find these every where I go! |
"Causing great public interest and excitement" Sensational!!!!
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| The picture of excitement! |
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| Thanksgiving dinner camping style! |
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| Gracie on the beach. |
The first morning at camp Gracie and I got up before the sunrise and walked the beach so I could get some sunrise pictures. We walked a couple of miles and took several nice pictures, no one else was on the beach just us two. Our walk took us past another group of campsites that are located just behind the sand dunes, with easy access to the beach. The second morning we walked again, but it was a little later and the sun had already risen, we also walked the other direction away from the campground and meant a few more more people enjoying the early morning beach. A lady rode pass us and then turned around and rode up to me and stopped. Gracie and I stopped and we all smiled and said "Hi." She said,"I took a picture of you yesterday. You were walking on the beach before sunrise, weren't you?" I said,"Yes." She went on to tell how she was sitting on the dunes with her camera to get pictures of the sun coming up. When Gracie and I walked by she took our silhouette against the brightening sky. I said,"That's cool!" and then she said,"I asked my friend beside me, How long do you think they have been walking together? She said, your dog watches you when you walk, she is always looking to see were you are and she moves with you, she never is very far away." I know that I am way too emotionally attached to my Gracie girl, but her story was very sweet and she'll never know how much it means to me. Gracie is thirteen and laying right here under my desk by my feet. We became us when she was eight weeks old.
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| Going Hiking |
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| Lighthouse |
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| Top of Lighthouse |
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| Low Tide at the beach |
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| What does today look like? |
Really this is a spectacular place! Enjoy these pictures.
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| Sunset |
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| Sunset |
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| Sunset |
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| Early Morning |
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| Early Morning |
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| Sunrise |
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| Sunrise-My favorite! |
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| High tide in marsh |
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| Sea oats |
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| Debris on beach |
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| Afternoon Moon |
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| South Carolina Blue Sky- Palm Tree |
Hunting Island -- beautiful in a dramatic and eye catching way -- Spectacular!
So all we have left is bewitching - cast a spell on and gain control over by magic, or enchant and delight [ someone ]
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| Enchanting |
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| Delighting [ it's sunset ] |
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| Shrimp boat |
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| Ocean foam |
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| Just a cool picture! |
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| What's the story behind this house? |
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| Crash landing! |
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| Bewitching--the Love of my life!! |
In the woods or on the water,
Turtle
