The coastal area around Charleston is known as the “Low Country.” Jill and I spent a week here on the second half of our honeymoon, so this week’s theme is from our trip and possibly a few other times that the Low Country has been the destination,.
One thing that is certain if it is summer (or spring or fall) it is hot and usually humid - it certainly was true on the second full week of August. That is just part of the reality of living in Charleston yet the benefits are lovely: history, scenery, ocean, marsh, charm, marvelous food and lots more. We had a great time and love the area, hope this week encourages you to take a trip to the Low Country..
Today the photos are from the Hubcaw Barony - story tomorrow plus….
…. when you find out how I shared a bathroom with FDR and Winston Churchill. Really.
I had to take this through the windshield of the van we were in, hence the mirror shadow. But it was so neat. This is the original King’s Highway and along it rode, Lafayette to meet George Washington, The Swamp Fox, F. Marion as he harassed the British, Cornwallis on his march to the infamy of the surrender at Yorktown and so much more. It would be Route 17 today if not for an influential man who did not want a highway across his land. More later on that story.
Church and house in what was an enslaved people’s village
A vital weather station along the tidal marsh