Charleston Currents – Edisto Island

PHOTO ESSAY: Botany Bay is a Lowcountry treasure

By English Purcell, special to Charleston Currents | Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve and Wildlife Management Area is a Lowcountry treasure, and its “boneyard beach” is one of my favorite places to photograph.

Opened to the public in 2008, the 3,363-acre Botany Bay tract (map)is a significant wildlife habitat with several equally significant historic assets.

The Wildlife Management Area is also an active archaeological site where the remains of two prehistoric Native American shell rings are being threatened by erosion.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 01/04/2021 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news, Photo Essay

MYSTERY PHOTO: Big, white building

Gee whiz — this building makes an impression. But where in the Lowcountry is it? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our Oct. 14 mystery, “Another old building” showed the Hutchison House on Edisto Island, which now reportedly is undergoing a renovation. Thanks to contributor Fred Palm for suggesting it as a mystery.

by Charleston Currents · 10/21/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Wild blue yonder

This photo is in Charlston County, but it might not be where you expect it to be. There’s a big clue in the middle of it, but where is it? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: The Aug. 27 mystery had a big clue at the left of the picture with a sign that said, “Loggerhead turtle area.” But which one? Folly Beach? St. Helena Island? Nope. It was, as a couple of sleuths figured out, the beach at Edisto Island State Park near a park building that overlooks the dunes..

by Charleston Currents · 09/04/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

FOCUS: Edisto Beach and its tales of mystery

By C. Hope Clark, special to Charleston Currents | A beach with no franchises where the loggerhead turtles take priority over the tourists. A beach where the locals preserve history, embrace their Southernism, and refuse to allow motels. A beach where you go to do what beaches were meant for. . . get away and bask in no responsibility and the sun, the rollers in the background lulling you to sleep.

by Charleston Currents · 08/01/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

HISTORY: Edisto Island

S.C. Encyclopedia | Located between the mouths of the North and South Edisto Rivers south of Charleston, Edisto Island is a Lowcountry Sea Island of approximately sixty-eight square miles. The island is shielded from the Atlantic Ocean by Edisto Beach, a barrier island municipality contained in Colleton County and linked to Edisto Island by a causeway.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/19/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia