Hilton Head and Edisto Beach

We spent a couple of nights at a park in Hardeeville SC, just west of Hilton Head. We took a drive into Hilton Head, stopping on the way at Bluffton, where they were having a food festival.

I'm not sure what the kid in the foreground was doing. Photo bomb maybe? Practising his Monty Python silly walk?

We bought a few things there but that was over a week ago and I don’t remember what, but they were delicious.

Hilton Head

Busy busy, busy, crazy traffic, excruciatingly long traffic lights, parking near impossible and condo’s everywhere. I'm sure there’s a beach somewhere but I couldn't find it. Not one of my favourite places, Hilton Head.

On the brighter side, we had lunch in Harbour Town at a place called the Crazy Crab. The best fried clam strips ever. EVER!

I have to talk about golf carts. Golf carts are seen just about everywhere in the southern US. Not just for gated communities any more. They are allowed on secondary roads, on many beaches and in state parks. These are not run out, golf course hand me downs. Most of them are bought new and then customized.  We have seen many RV’s towing a golf cart on a trailer instead of towing a car, to get around.

Here are a few examples

Even South Carolina's finest have them.  I asked him what was required to drive one on the street. He told me all you need is insurance and in some places registration, and a driver's license, of course. I think it’s a great idea.

They’re either electric or very cheap on gas, they solve a lot of traffic congestion and parking problems, and they're just plain fun to drive. Rentals are everywhere. 

Next stop, Edisto Beach State Park. It is located on the Atlantic coast just below Charleston SC. 

This was to be our last chance for “beach time”. We had high hopes since most of our earlier beach destinations had been wet and/or frigid.

After enduring two days of cold ,rain and wind, it finally warmed up into the mid 20’s. The wind was still a bit cool so we set up the beach tent/wind break and had a couple of nice days on the beach.

Here, Darlene had just arrived and wasn't yet convinced of the shelter's effectiveness in turning spring into summer. I was wearing proper summer attire, shorts and a T-shirt. 

This is the camp ground, a few hundred feet from the water.

The beach at Edisto is more "coarse" than most of the others we have visited.

That's not gravel you see, they're sea shells, every kind imaginable. 

Here is a squadron of pelicans doing a fly over of the campground.

We left Edisto 3 days ago. 

Tonight is our last night in Columbia SC (the capital city of SC, who knew) . The weather has been great except for this afternoon when we had thunderstorms and tornado warnings.

My little buddy Cosmo has been a real trooper on this trip. He's not well, going on 16 years but I think he's really happy to be with us. He rarely comes out of the unit except sometimes at night.

We (and the vet) really didn't think he would make it through the 5 month trip, but now I'm pretty sure he'll be on the verandah at home, catching the morning sun in a week or so. He's always first in line at the water dish when we put ice cubes in it.

And he loves a camp fire.

Tomorrow we need to get an oil change. It was supposed to be a 350 mile day but I think we may lose some time with the oil change so who knows where we’ll spend the night. It may be the first of many Walmarts. We have found a few casinos

along our route home so that may be an alternative.