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South Carolina Day 6 (Bonus Day): Botany Bay

3 December 2022 • 177 km / 110 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 31 December 2022
  • South Carolina 21

We awoke this morning to news that our flight home to Seattle had been canceled. This gave us the opportunity to sleep in a bit and then go visit Botany Bay, near Edisto Beach.

I’d long heard of this location, famous for its weather-worn trees standing in the sand and water. I’ve seen some ethereal photos taken in this site in foggy weather, but today we had bright sunlight.

I hope to return some day in moodier weather.

Two bare, weathered tree skeletons stand silhouetted in shallow seawater at the shoreline of a beach, their twisting branches reaching into a bright sky scattered with wispy clouds. Foamy waves wash over dark sand in the foreground under strong daylight.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
The dark, weathered trunks of two boneyard-beach trees rise from shallow surf and cast long reflections across the wet, rippled sand at Botany Bay. Small shells and pebbles are scattered across the foreground as gentle foamy waves roll up the shore.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Two bare, weathered trees stand silhouetted in the shallow surf of a beach, their leafless branches reaching against a bright blue sky with the sun high overhead. Wet sand in the foreground reflects the trees, with foamy waves washing in from the sea.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
A close-up of wet, damp sand on a beach showing intricate lacy patterns of tiny holes and dotted swirls, with a single small white shell fragment near the upper left.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Silhouettes of four bare, weathered dead trees standing in shallow ocean water at the edge of a beach, with the bright sun high in a mostly blue sky and small waves breaking behind them.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina · by Lisa Rozmyn
A bare, weathered dead tree stands silhouetted on a wide sandy beach, its skeletal branches spreading against a blue sky streaked with wispy clouds, while the sun glows behind the trunk and casts long branching shadows across the sand toward the ocean.
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Botany Bay Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, Edisto Island, South Carolina · by Lisa Rozmyn

If ya gotta spend an extra day away from home, this view ain’t bad.

A small boat cuts across the calm water of Charleston Harbor at dusk, leaving a wake, with a low city skyline silhouetted on the horizon beneath a dramatic sky of scattered clouds tinged orange and gold by the setting sun.
Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Charleston to Edisto Island, South Carolina, and back · 177 km / 110 mi
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