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The marsh is an endless and ever changing maze through a salt water world.
Well. Today’s walk was a little crazier than normal. A good hour of highs and lows.
1. I was walking under a tree near my house, and I heard some squawking above me. To my pleasant surprise a beautiful Peregrine Falcon was looking down at me. I was able to hold eye contact with the bird for a few good seconds. As it flew away, I got to snap a picture.
2. I was on the marsh boardwalk, and I decided to stop for a moment to take this picture. In the process, I was stung by a bee for the first time ever. While the sting did hurt, I literally sat there and cried because the poor honey bee was gonna die, and I love bees. So, watching the poor little bee fall to the ground was worse than the pain.
But! A blue crab came to the rescue. Because in the midst of the stinging, I looked down in the shallows, and a big blue crab was crawling around, so I got to watch him chase minnows.
3. Once I got to the ocean, my arm felt like I just got a shot. But I stood on the pier and listened to an old man sing the worst rendition of Chattahoochee in karaoke history. He put forth a good effort though.
4. When I got back to my house, my neighbor called me over. Apparently he’s been growing papaya trees. It isn’t necessarily ground breaking, but that was such a random thing to see grow in South Carolina. I also saw a rabbit run by, but I couldn’t take a picture.
Anyways. How was your day? 😂😂
The ocean welcomed me home tonight with a sunset over the marsh. I guess I miss it a little bit.
Alright I guess I missed the coast a little bit (a lot). Especially the marsh. Until next time! Back to the mountains for me.
Nothing like the coast back home.
I miss the tidal creeks and the roosting egrets every day. I’ll never love anything the way I love this place.
Picked up my paint brush today for the first time in a while.
Egrets are my favorite bird. It’s always been a joy watching them catch fish in the marsh during my afternoons walks. When I visit home, they are always the first thing I look for, and they’re always in the marsh to greet me. I’m excited to live near all my coastal birds again.
I’m back around a landscape I love and inspires the artist in me.
The marsh is constantly changing shape, but it always stays familiar.
I’ve been lucky enough in my life to see and explore areas that are not easily accessible to the public along the SC Coast. Especially along the upper Lowcountry in Georgetown, along the Winyah Bay and North Inlet. I’ve explored the Carolina Bay areas in upper Charleston County and so on.
As a kid, I often accessed the islands on my dad’s old little john boat. Nothing special - just a lot of knowledge passed down on how to get “there”. I grew up visiting places that felt truly still wild. Such a large portion of the SC coast is hidden and inaccessible by a car. Or… like today, accessible by car and a long walk, but the road there is kept behind a gate.
Like I said, I find myself becoming luckier and I gain access to more keys to unlock this beautiful coast I love. Then I get to share it here, with you.
THIS South Carolina is something special. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see it, it stays with you, and at least for me, I can never get enough.
The stories of how I get these keys are a whole other thing itself, you’d have to ask to hear those stories. Today, I walked along the beach that stretches along the North Inlet. You can view a stretch of it from an immaculate house at the end of the gated and closed off community. An uninterrupted view of nature as far as the eye can see.
I wouldn’t mind doing the dishes with this view -
Today, I parked under this house (with permission) and started walking. You can tell this place rarely has visitors. Huge shells line the shore. The sand only moves by the wind, and my footsteps were the only ones I could see. The only evidence of visitors are the conch shells that hang on the drift wood.
I only explored about 3/4 of a mile of this stretch today, but I plan on taking a lot more time one weekend. It’s no wonder why I’m so connected to this place. It’s no wonder why I couldn’t stay far away.
Since my move back in September, my life has been moving 90 mph. I obviously enjoy the beach during my work days, which is awesome. But for almost 6 months I have had plans, functions, trips and the like planned for 95% of my weekends. While my day-to-day life has been extremely more peaceful - I have been absolutely exhausted.
I took full advantage of enjoying Colorado, but I was SO excited to come home. BECAUSE I have no more weekend plans until the end of May. So I get to fully enjoy rest this spring at home. I get to enjoy my vegetable and herbs on my patio and I can start living slllooowww.
Here’s to days just walking along the shores with no weekend responsibilities above watering my plans and feeding Ophelia. I feel so rested today.
Who knows how many sunsets have graced my walks across this marsh over the years. I love this time of year when the marsh marigolds (I think that’s what they are) are in bloom.
I learned the hard way what life is like without the salt marsh. I won’t make that mistake again.
The endless beauty of a coastal marsh.