Day 16 - Jan 24 - Lou and Claire's birthdays - Hunting Island, SC

The day started off raining, and ended up gorgeous--sunny, in the mid-sixties.  On our way to Hunting Island, we stopped at Penn Center.  This was the original school for the freed enslaved children, right after the Civil War.  It was then a school for blacks, through the 1960's.  Now, it is a museum.  Just so-so.
  However, the Hunting Island State Park consists of the entire island.  We started at the Nature Center and did the 1 mile nature trail over to the ocean.  This was another shore completely covered with dead trees. This time, they were all washed up on shore over the last century, due to various storms, as this beach is at the point of a peninsula on the island. 
  Next, we walked the boardwalk into the marsh.  Best sense of what these huge fields of grass really are.  Walking the boardwalk, you can see that it is all water, with grass sprouting up.
  Then, we drove over to the light house--decommissioned in 1933.  We climbed the 167 steps, to the top, to the magnificent view. Then, we just walked the beach, looking for sea shells, and just enjoying the day--the sun, the warm weather, the ocean waves, the wind, the miles of beaches.  My kind of day.
   Happy Birthday to Lou and Claire !!!

The Hunting Island State Park nature center trail to the ocean:

The Boardwalk into the Marsh:

The Lighthouse and beach: