A True Story as told from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. There are some people who are fools. No other way to explain actions people sometimes take—I mean foolish risks they take, inexplicably. Not the acts of older teenage boys that are based on growth...
Along the Journey
Eventide: Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area
Edisto Island, South Carolina The rays of the setting sun tint everything in sight with a warm orange glow as I meander northeast on Botany Bay Road into the Botany Bay Plantation. Colors intensify as the long shadows fall and tree trunks become orange columns under...
The Kindness of Strangers
Most people you meet are really helpful and kind, or want to be, especially people that enjoy camping. Some will go to great lengths to help you if they believe in what you are doing or if they see the tragedy or danger of your plight. Generosity can be easy for some...
INVASION of the Big BUGS
Edisto Beach Campground is a quiet little place 57 or so miles south of Charleston, SC. The community of Edisto Beach is comprised of locals, full-timers, part-timers and vacationers and residents. A friendly place with lots of history including plantations, slave...
What is the Difference Between a Palm Tree and a Palmetto Tree?
I was thinking about Southern trees again today, I realized I really don't know the difference between a palmetto tree and a palm tree. So I Googled it—Only one answer was definitive: "The palmetto tree has an "etto" at the end and the palm doesn't." With enthusiasm I...
Visiting Charleston’s famous 300 to 400 year old: ANGEL OAK TREE.
By William Francis Ahearn Many cities across the world have startlingly beautiful individual trees. Charleston's Angel Oak Tree on Johns Island is easily among the trees at top of that list: The Angel Oak, is a wondrous Southern live oak (quercus virginiana),...
SOME DAYS ARE DIAMONDS—SOME DAYS ARE STONES
On Wednesday afternoon, my dog Minna and I, took a brisk walk on Edisto (e-DIS-toe) beach. Off to the west high faint, wispy, fast-moving clouds were a unique sight because nothing really moves very fast in South Carolina. “Ceptin’ mebbe a white-tailed deer, or...
Let me tell you the story of our days.
Traveling is a wonderful adventure peppered with tiny unimportant inconveniences. Each journey I have been on in my life has always included someone for me to look after. Now I am by myself—on my own. My dog Minna not excluded but how much trouble can she be? Yet each...
Read All About IT.
Some folks have emailed and twittered asking how I am managing in a little trailer with my right hand in a brace, quarters 3 feet by six feet = 36 square feet of floor space and no cabinets. No one ever promised this would be easy only that it would be an adventure...
An Old Literary Friend Re-visited.
Today Minna and I have settled in at Edisto Island Beach State Park—a palmetto-lined beach famed for its sea shelling, long soft-sandy beach, maritime forest and proximity to Toogoodoo Creek. Only an hour from Charleston SC, the park is divided: Section I—campsites...
