Category Archives: Day Trips

This week’s featured page…

Posted on February 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Spring break is getting closer and closer, and this week’s featured page showcases another cool and educational place to visit over the break, the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center. I especially recommend a visit here if you have young ones, because they are going to LOVE the main exhibit room with the 3000 gallon aquarium and the awesome harks hanging from the ceiling. And did I mention the live critters they can visit up close? If you are heading to Paris Island or Beaufort, make sure to to plan some time for a stop here on the way.

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First Visit to Daufuskie

Posted on October 24, 2015 | Leave a comment
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Daufuskie Island

Two women, a borrowed boat, and a tank of gas.

Yesterday was a perfectly beautiful (beautifully perfect) October day in the lowcountry- sunny, clear, temps in the high 70’s, and get this NO HUMIDITY. I could not have ordered up a better day if I had tried.

My friend, Joanne, is a fairly newly licensed boat captain and wanted to go practice, so practice she did. spending hours exploring Calabogie Sound and the Cooper River and Ranmshorn Creek on the western side of Daufuskie Island.

025 In the 15 years we have been coming to Hilton Head, we have never made it to Daufuskie, so we docked at The Freeport Marina for lunch. We landed not long after the ferry from Hilton Head, and these few people seemed to be the only other people milling about. October is evidently a great time to visit if you don’t enjoy crowds of people (me!).

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