Buck Hall has become one of our favorite places. We joined S
& E and all went to dinner at T. W. Graham Seafood Restaurant in
McClennanville. Fried Oysters and Key Lime Pie all around! The next day, S, E and I went to the
Santee Coastal WLMA – very buggy but wonderful birds. Later, my cousin Sarah
and her friend Joe arrived! They ended up staying two nights and kayaked around
parts of the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Sarah’s hope was to kayak
with dolphins and they found them! There has been several times I wished I had
a kayak. Something to put on the list to research. We all had dinner at the campsite
the first night and headed in different directions the next.
Everyone left us Tuesday. We really wanted to go to the
Center for Birds of Prey that was only open Thur – Sat. We also wanted to head towards Charleston so
we decided to stay on. This meant more lunches at Graham’s and the
McClennanville Diner and shrimp for dinner and will also mean big changes in
our diet when we get home. A great hike was the S. Tiwbin Trail. This was a
Wetlands Management Complex designed and built by Ducks, Unlimited in the
Francis Marion National Forest. What it really means is that it is an area that
has been created to attract wildlife (ducks in particular) to live and breed,
and open the area up for hunting during the seasons. It is really pretty,
somewhat buggy and a number of big alligators along with lots of birds.
We got to Drayton Hall in Charleston which was
very impressive. This is the oldest unrestored plantation house open to the
public. There is no furniture which really makes it easier to focus on the architecture
which is Palladian-inspired. Even though the house was used by the family as
recently as the 1970’s, no bathrooms were added and the house has only had 3
coats of paint in 300 years.
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