DEERLY SPEAKING
We share our island with many types of wildlife, but none more prevalent than the white-tailed deer population roaming our marshes and...
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- Jan 20
WEATHER, OR NOT?
We've begun the year with some pretty changeable weather, from below freezing temperatures over the holiday season to near-seventy...
- Jan 6
ALL SHOOK UP
The devastating earthquake that struck Charleston in 1886 remains, at 7.4 on the Richter scale, the strongest earthquake to ever occur on...
- Dec 9, 2022
THE CLEANUP CREW
You've probably seen them roosting on rooftops at Freshfields, those hulking black silhouettes of the turkey vulture . Few would consider...
- Oct 21, 2022
DIAMONDS IN THE MUD
While much attention is justly focused on the endangered, seafaring loggerhead turtle population that nests here every summer, a less...
- Oct 7, 2022
Reading Palms
Even though we live in the Palmetto State, we probably hardly notice that we're surrounded by one of the earth's oldest life forms -...
- Sep 16, 2022
ON THE WING
This time of year, our Lowcountry skies are graced with flashes of orange, black and yellow as butterflies take to the air on their...
- Sep 2, 2022
BUGS IN LOVE
Love is in the air, at least if you're a Plecia nearctica, commonly known as the love bug, which appears in great numbers this time of...
- Aug 12, 2022
NAME THAT HURRICANE
We're now in peak hurricane season, and are already up to "H" names - that would be for tropical storm Howard, in the eastern Pacific,...
- Aug 5, 2022
NEW NEIGHBORS
Summer brings new faces and new neighbors to the island, if only for the season, but one recent arrival is here to stay - the armadillo....
- Jul 22, 2022
TOMATO/TOMAHTO
However you pronounce it, Johns Island tomatoes are famously delicious, and prized well beyond the Lowcountry. (A friend arriving at a...
- Jul 8, 2022
SONG OF THE SOUTH
Easy trivia question: what's the State Bird of South Carolina? Easy answer: the Carolina Wren, one of the most ubiquitous birds in the...
- Jun 20, 2022
CAPTAIN SAMS MAKES THE CUT
The northeastern tip of North Beach, opposite Kiawah's Beachwalker Park, is usually a reliable spot for dolphin watching and for enjoying...
- Jun 10, 2022
IN THE HEIGHTS
We may hardly notice them because they're so always present, including on the town of Seabrook Island's official seal, but brown...
- Apr 10, 2022
STRONG AS AN OAK
We may take them for granted, but for many the southern live oak is the iconic symbol of the Lowcountry. Quercus virginiana is common...
- Apr 5, 2022
BASIN BASICS
One of our favorite areas to visit on our SINHG Trip schedule is the ACE Basin, the 350,000-acre estuary less than an hour's drive south...
- Apr 5, 2022
ON THE BEACH
We're looking a little differently at our three-and-a-half miles of beach after visiting with marine geologist Dr Leslie Sautter, from...
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