Wednesday we took our time in the morning. We had a good breakfast at CB and set off for Hilton Head about 1030. The forecast was for heavy wind and rain so we planned for it to take a bit more than the 3 hours that google calculated.
We hit heavy wind and rain, but we have been in much worse, it was good washing off the Serenity Falcon.
We arrived in Hilton Head around 1400, it was cloudy but a nice temperature.
We even fit in the driveway of Bob and Maribeth's rental.
We immediately went for a walk on the beach, the sun came out and it was pretty nice.
We walked to a local restaurant for dinner, it was Ash Wednesday so we ate at the restaurant named 'Fish', the shrimp was very good.
Thursday we did a 40/40 beach walk before breakfast, the temps and winds were in the 40s.
We had the beach pretty much to ourselves, imagine that!
We walked for a while into the wind, when we got sufficiently chilled we turned inland, it was still a very nice walk of a bit over a mile.
After breakfast we decided to check out Sea Pines Forest Preserve.
The Sea Pines area has an interesting history, it was one of the first organized communities that sought to integrate development with preservation of the natural surroundings and became a model to many other communities in the country.
The preserve itself is integrated into the community and has many walking, biking and horse trails.
Early in our walk, we saw a gator laying in the sun, with his lunch just in front of him.
The forest has lots of swamps and ponds, we chose not to swim in them :-).
We navigated our way to the location of one of the ancient shell rings that have been discovered between Florida and the Carolina's.
The rings vary in size from small rings to rings bigger than a football field. The are believed to be town gathering places. Frankly, Bob is probably more correct, he said they resulted from people sitting around a bon fire eating oysters and throwing the shells over their shoulder.
Our walk was around 3 miles and the trees blocked the wind, it was quite comfortable.
At the end of our hike we saw an Anhinga much like the one we saw in Florida.
After our hike we drove to Harbour Town, it was chilly but very picturesque.
We had lunch at the Crazy Crab, what an interesting place, it is very nicely decorated.
We had a nice time in Harbour Town.
We returned to the house and got in the hot tub. It was a cool day so it felt great.
We ordered pizza for dinner and invited my VT friend Rich over for dinner. Rich is in HH for a few months with his wife Sandi. Unfortunately, Sandi could not come because she was back in VT dealing with a water issue at their home in Vermont.
We had a very nice visit and some great pizza from the Mellow Mushroom. I was a bit wary of the shrooms on the pizza, I did sleep well, but I really don't think it had anything do do with the pizza.. :-).
Friday we will continue to make our way north, we will visit June's nephew in North Carolina.
Some of the best days of the trip! Bob and Maribeth are so much fun and they let us crash their vacation too, like John and Mary Ann! There is just something about walking on the beach, much longer than Pompano. Plenty to do if you know where to look. Seeing Rich was a bonus.
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