Wednesday, April 30, 2014



on the southeast corner of South Carolina is Hunting Island state park on the Atlantic coast.  At this park you can camp, swim in the ocean, cycle the trails and roads, hike, and climb the lighthouse.  You always hear birds as it is a very wooded park. I rode my mountain bike on a tough trail to the lighthouse.  This is a well maintained lighthouse, built in 1873 and moved in 1889 due to erosion.  In 1889 they moved it a quarter mile.  Today it less than a 100 yards away from the beach. It has 167 steps and is 132 ft tall.  It was very windy on the top, good thing I didn't have a hat on.  Original storage buildings serve as museums.  After riding more trails and roads I walked far in each direction on the beach.  One section of the beach was being eroded badly, the surf pulling sand from under trees and the trees falling over becoming driftwood.  Some campsites next to the beach will be gone very soon as the ocean takes land but adds to it 200 yards away.

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