September 21, 2012
Can’t believe we slept 10 hours! Guess this doing nothing grows on you – but
that is what a vacation is for right?
Even retirees get to take a vacation!
Ben is on the phone organizing inspections for next week and Jane is
actually writing blog entries and transferring photos to the computer. Glad to report the new coffee pot works
fine!
After a quick lunch we headed to the beach for some fun in
the sun. The water was too murky for Ben to see anything so he just enjoyed
swimming. We watched some campers with their sail boat. They were having a great time however, had to
dismantle boat and carry back to their campground each night as nothing is
allowed on the beach at night due to the turtles. It is also not legal to dig a
hole and leave it overnight. We saw
several nesting areas but it is too late in the season for the hatching.
Jane made it over to the camp store and finally got the
first few days of the blog posted. They have
two MIFI hot spots here for use by the campers. It was easy to use and able to
upload photos – so no excuse for not posting each day other than I was lazy.
We drove up to the lighthouse and took a few photos and then
headed across to St. Helena Island to buy seafood to bring home.
We had been to White’s Seafood earlier in the
week and while the shrimp was great the selection of fish was very limited. We
tried Gay’s Seafood today and their selection was much better. We bought 5
pounds of shrimp, 2 packages of flounder filets and 1 of grouper. That is about all the refrigerator freezer
area will hold! In fact more – I put
some right under the freezer too!
We drove aways back on St. Helena Island and selected the
Foolish Frog for dinner tonight. It was
perhaps even better than last nights’ dinner. Jane had Coconut Shrimp with two
great dipping sauces and Ben had the special – Wreck Fish with scalloped potatoes
and asparagus. Both were fantastic. We had never heard of Wreck Fish but it is native of Charleston. The cream sauce for the potatoes had a bit of
thyme and the sauce on the Wreck Fish had some red sweet pepper and a little
bit of heat. The Foolish Frog is one of
three restaurants in downtown (crossroads) of Frogmore - about 7 miles from Hunting Island.
Back at camp we managed to clean up most of the campsite and
take down the fly tent over the picnic table. We wanted to make as early a start as
possible tomorrow.
September 22, 2012
Up at 7:00 for a change!
The dense woods is really great since there is always shade but it is
dark early in the morning - usually at
the beach the sunshine wakes you up early – not the case here! The campground began filling up all the empty
spots last night. After we went to bed someone came into the site right beside
us that had been empty since Tuesday. We were packed up and on the road by 8:15 – Ben had been
able to find an easy way to handle both a bike and the kayak. Jane did not take her bike – don’t know if we
could have found room for 2 bikes and the kayak.
Sky as we leave Hunting Island |
We had to pass over two draw bridges – one from Hunting
Island to St. Helena Island and then another back into Beaufort. The one in
Beaufort crosses the Inland Waterway. We
had only been stopped once during the week when shrimp boats were returning.
This morning we waited at the Beaufort Bridge while a sailboat came into
port.
From there it was an uneventful
trip home. We stopped between Columbia and Spartanburg for lunch at a Taco
Bell. I had never had the Dorito Loco Taco’s – they are really quite good.
We were home at 3:30 – about a 7 hour drive. We had only stopped twice once for a
gas/bathroom break and again for lunch. We had
sunshine all the way with only a very few trees beginning to have faint color. We will be planning a trip back in a few
weeks for the color!
September 23, 2012
Since we had only unpacked the seafood and a few essentials
yesterday – today meant about 3 hours of work to clean out the Sprinter. Funny how it takes nearly the same amount of
time to move in and out for a 1 week trip as for a 6 week trip! Only difference is a bit more food to plan
and buy and perhaps a few more clothes for the longer trip.
Great trip and we are already planning a trip back to Hunting Island next
fall.