Harbor Town Yacht Basin

Harbor Town Yacht Basin

Harbour Town Yacht Basin is in Sea Pines by the lighthouse. It is surrounded by shops and restaurants. It is a relaxing place to spend an afternoon while you are visiting Hilton Head Island. You have to pay to enter Sea Pines, but not much. The marina is full service. They offer slip rentals, boat [...]

Carolina Parakeets

Discovery House, the museum at Honey Horn Plantation, has a stuffed Carolina Parakeet. They were much bigger than my parakeets. Budgies are a little over 1 oz. to 1.4 oz. Carolina Parakeets were 3.5 to 4 oz. Carolina Parakeets used to live all over what early Spanish colonists called Carolana,  the territory from the Atlantic [...]

Stoney-Baynard Plantation Ruins

Stoney-Baynard Plantation Ruins

This is a postcard of the ruins of the Stoney-Baynard Plantation. There is very little left, but these are the remains of a house and slave quarters. They are built of tabby, a sort of concrete made from shells. Shells were burned to create lime. The lime was mixed with water, sand and broken stones [...]

Old Fort Walker

Old Fort Walker

This is an old postcard of Fort Walker. You can see the ruins at the end of Fort Walker Drive. There is a historical marker. Fort Walker was at the mouth of Port Royal Sound facing Fort Beauregard on the other side of the Sound. They were built using slave labor to protect Port Royal [...]