June 16, 2009: Edisto Beach, SC

Edisto Beach is a place my mother reminisced about where her family vacationed visiting an Aunt and Cousins when she was a small child. We thought we would retrace her steps. We turned out of the ICW to follow the South Edisto River towards the inlet to the ocean. Edisto Beach is a triangle that juts out into the sea. We passed the end of the beach as we turned up Big Bay Creek to anchor inland to the beach. There were low country shrimp boats lined up along the fisherman's docks on the bay.

Our 10 mile bike ride took us on a narrow paved trail by the golf course, by the Edisto Realty where Tom stopped to get some papers notarized, to the PiggyWiggy to get a Father’s Day card and on to the beach. The island is full of beach cottages with a family atmosphere and almost no business. The public beach access wooden board walk led us over to a narrow beach reinforced every 50 yards with huge stone jetties. We went swimming in the warm waves and got out as we saw storm clouds in the distance.

We had several miles to ride back to the dock where we had left the dinghy.

We quickly packed up the bikes and pushed off into the wind that had picked up and was blowing us into shore. But we were not quick enough! Soon we were being pelted with rain as we proceed back up the choppy creek to where we had left the boat. It was tricking getting the dinghy on the lift with the wind and current, but totally drenched, we made it back. The afternoon ended in an hour of rain, but later cleared up enough to see the sun set.