One of the days while we were there, we drove out to Botany Bay Plantation. This is an amazing nature preserve consisting of about 4,600 acres of untouched land.
All of the following photos, I actually took with my "real" camera. It is the only time I took it out of the bag the entire week we were there.
Live Oaks and Spanish Moss were very abundant:
At one point we stopped, and Jackson could not help himself from jumping out of the car and starting to climb...
One of the only remaining structures is the beautiful Ice House - a luxury for the plantation owners. This building was insulated with saw dust.
By far the most amazing part was being able to walk out to the private beach on this nature preserve. It is actually against the law to take any shells or other artifacts from the beach. I have never experienced anything like it. It was like being on a deserted island.
There were shells everywhere.
Since you aren't allowed to take any shells, people have started hanging them on the trees like Christmas ornaments.
We really only had the opportunity to walk on the beach here since we didn't bring any of our gear with us, but it was very relaxing.
I am so thankful that our family was able to enjoy such a wonderful morning and experience such natural beauty.
4 comments:
Looks like you guys had a blast. I can see tons of sea shells did you bring any back?
Wow! So pretty!
I would have a hard time not bringing some of those shells home!! Beautiful!!
Your pictures are just fabulous of the spanish moss, the dead trees, shells, all of the pictures are great. I enjoyed looking at them. :) Glad you all had a good time on your "family vacay" week.
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