Back to Beaufort for another visit with Cousins David & Susan (on Wilson's side). We had time before our scheduled arrival to Beaufort so we stopped by the Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is outside of Hilton Head. We had thought to go there at the beginning of our trip but didn't make it.
Pickney Island was named after a Charles Pickney, a Revolutionary War commander and signer of the U.S. Constitution. Although that is interesting, we actually wanted to stop here because our friend Ellen's father, Edward Starr, along with another gentleman owned the island prior to donating it to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Cool, right? Wilson and I took a couple mile walk in the refuge, our goal was to visit Starr Pond.
We spent a lovely afternoon/evening with David & Susan. We played many hands of Pinocle, girls against the boys, and of course the girls came out on top:). Thursday night is burger night at a local restaurant $7 and they come with fries...the burgers were huge, 3/4 lb. of beef...
Leave Fort McAllister SP, GA 9:44am
Rte. 144Spur►144W►17N►17N/16E►17NI16E►315N►170E/46
Gas - Walmart (Murphy) $2.03/gal
Arrive Pickney Island NWR 11:30am (leave 12:45pm)
Rte. 170E►Bluffton Pkwy►278W►170E►21N
Arrive Beaufort, SC - 2:33pm
Miles Traveled - 98.8
Friday, February 24, 2017
We left Beaufort after a lazy morning filled with great conversation to back to Columbia for a couple more days with my cousins Stephen & Sandra. They are great fun and I very much looked forward to seeing them again. As I said before probably the best part of this trip is reconnecting and/or connecting on a different level with people in our lives, our visits to SC is a prime example of this.
As we travel along the east coast we start seeing more New England license plates, which excites me. I noticed them more today and mentioned it to Wilson and he said he noticed that as well yesterday. It's all interesting the things that you see on the highway...check out the huge race boat that we saw...there was a second one right behind it but we got off the interstate before it passed us :)
Leave Beaufort, SC 12:22pm
Rte. 21N►68W►95N►26N►(here we changed our route due to traffic on the interstate...it took a bit longer, but it was fine - that is after I stopped talking directions to Wilson, as I was just rambling along w/o knowing what I was talking about :)....►172E►601N
Arrive Columbia, SC - 3:35pm
Miles Traveled - 161.2
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