Day 17 - Jan. 25 - Rest day - Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary

Today was another rest day - sort of.  We hung out at the campground for the morning.  I did 2 loads of laundry, had lunch.  Since it was such a beautiful sunny day, and we are trying to be sure we get a good amount of exercising in each day, we found a local wildlife sanctuary that had good hiking trails.
  We really lucked out with the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary.  It had amazing boardwalks over swamps that were forests flooded with water.  It had wonderful hiking trails, and ended with a beaver pond like none other that I have seen.  The water was covered in red and green algae.  It looked like someone had poured lime green paint, and then red paint, in the water, and swirled them around.  The result looked like a swirled carpet, that you could walk on.  We even saw big turtles, basking in the sun.  It ended up being a 3.5 mile hike.  Just perfect.
  For dinner, we decided to go over the the KOA campgrounds 1/2 mile down the road.  It has a beer & wine tasting room, and a pizza parlor.  We met and chatted with some interesting folks, including the couples that are hired by KOA to work there, for 6 months at a time.  They are usually full-time RVers who get free RV lodging and pay.

Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary boardwalk:

The beaver pond and duck pond:

The Walterboro Red Rocking chair--is the symbol of South Carolina Low Country hospitality: