Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw I was standing on the south end of Tybee Island, wading in the soft, warm waters of Tybee Creek, when I noticed a group of kayakers landing at a boneyard beach across the channel. A bit of Google Maps reconnaissance showed this to be Little Tybee, an uninhabited island…
Story + Photography by Julie Rogers Whether it’s walking on the beach or taking a short day-trip, one thing that we always find to be true is you meet some of the nicest people when you’re out enjoying nature. We recently met one such couple who told us about Widgeon Point, a hidden gem off…
SECRET SPOT OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw It’s a world-class kayaking destination tucked away in backwater Georgia, one of the last remaining old-growth bald cypress swamps in the world. It’s an enchanting realm of deep shade, mirror-black water, giant bulbous tree trunks twisted into fantastical shapes, and cypress knees taller…
Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw Between Beaufort and Charleston lies the great wilderness of the ACE Basin. Comprising the watersheds of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers (which form the acronym ACE), it is one of the largest undeveloped estuaries on the eastern seaboard—a million acres of forest, marsh, swamp and barrier island beach….
Story + photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw If you like open spaces, wind-blown grass, alligators and silence, come out to Bear Island Wildlife Management Area. You will be filled up with these things for days. I visited during a final spring cold snap with my bike and a backpack full of snacks, riding into the wind…
SECRET SPOT OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw When I moved to Bluffton nearly two decades ago, Pinckney Island was the first place I explored. I was 22 and fresh from the Pacific Northwest, where there are no snakes, ticks or chiggers; the innocence with which I took to the woods…
Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw Many a Savannah tourist has “discovered” this little window onto the past, with its evocative front archway and dignified avenue of oaks. Yet for us here on the Carolina side, the Wormsloe State Historic Site remains largely off the beaten track. I personally would never have thought to visit…
Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw The New is a well-kept secret in Bluffton. You’ve likely driven over it countless times — on the back road to Savannah, after the New Riverside Circle but before John’s Junkyard — perhaps without noticing you’d crossed a river at all. The bridge is not impressive enough to convey…
Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw The great wilderness of the ACE Basin guarantees solitude for those bold enough to penetrate its depths. One of the most pristine estuaries on the Eastern Seaboard, it comprises 350,000 acres of woods, wetlands and waterways, notably the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers that give the region its acronym….
Secret spot off the beaten track Story + photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw I’ve always loved St. Helena Island. With chickens running alongside the road and people selling coolers of shrimp, baskets of veggies, or even boxes of brand-new shoes on card tables in their front yards, it still feels like the country. But more than…
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