Day 49, Year 10: Low Country Walk in Brookgreen Gardens
Date: Friday, November 28, 2014
Weather: Sunny, Cool, and Still Windy; Daytime High in the 50’s F
Location: R Dock, Lightkeepers Marina, Little River, SC
Today we were either walking or riding in the car punctuated by short periods of eating. After breakfast, Kevin, Claire, Mark, and I took a stroll down the boardwalk to see the Intracoastal Waterway. Then we hopped in the car and drove south to Brookgreen Gardens where we walked and walked and walked, punctuated by a short period of time when we sat down to eat lunch. Brookgreen is an outdoor sculpture garden. The entire property is over 9,000 acres, and even though my feet feel like I walked over every acre, the sculpture garden covers very little of the total acreage. Today we ventured into the ‘low country’ and followed the path along the swamp that was once a huge rice plantation. We also walked through the zoo featuring local animals. There was a fabulous outdoor aviary housing local waterbirds, a pond with river otters, pens holding domestic animals first deposited here by Spanish explorers, foxes, owls, and one lone alligator. Kevin and Claire treated us to lunch and Claire and I stayed with the ‘low country’ theme having shrimp, cheesy grits, and fried green tomatoes. It was a lovely day. By the time we drove the hour back to Calabash to Patsy and Joe’s, the sun had set. We got to visit with Candi, Char, and Lynn for a short time before they had to leave to drive to the airport. We ate leftovers from yesterday’s Thanksgiving dinner and then we returned to Windbird. Jennifer is still at Patsy and Joe’s, but otherwise, the visiting family members have all gone home. Kevin and Claire will drive back to Ashburn, Virginia, tomorrow, and then later in the afternoon our friends Ed and Lynne Kirwin will arrive. They are driving through on their way back to Florida. They will only be able to spend one night, but it will be great to see them and hear about their plans for heading to the Bahamas for the winter.
