Great Charleston Escape: Edisto Beach – Botany Bay Plantation

Just 45 minutes outside of Charleston lies a natural preserve that is saturated with beautiful birds up above, millions of shells in all shapes and sizes, trees and huts mounted into the soft white sand, a fresh ocean breeze and the sound of soft waves crashing.  After a half mile walk on the pier, you will find this re-energizing site.

Before we take you on a Charleston Daily photographic visit to Botany Bay Plantation and Edisto Beach, we wanted to share a few facts with you.

• From entrance to exist, you will drive seven mils through the park which consists of 4687 acres and two plantations.
• On the land is a house, pasture and barn built in the 1930’s.  Its last resident was Margaret “Peggy” Meyer Pepper.  We just love to say the name.
• In the 1850’s Admiral Perry brought a Chinese gardener by the name of Oqui who laid out a fine oriental garden consisting of olive, citrus and spice trees as well as poppies, sugar can and many flowers and vegetables.
• Among the wildlife on the preserve are wild turkeys, deer, doves, fox squirrels and songbirds.
• Indian Point was a community of Cusabo Indians (Edisto) that inhabited the area in 2500  B.C.
• On the upper end of Jason’s Lake, there is a brick beehive well that was built in 1825 and once stood 12 feet high
• There is a 470 dollar fine if you remove any shells or life from the beach preserve

Enjoy this visual journey with us…

Entrance to the park – Spooky

Known as the Icehouse

Old tool shed

Dedication stone near the still algae filled lake

Still as the night air

Shells resting on an old tree stomp

Conch at rest

Row of conch

Tree rests in the sand

Shells forever

Man made hut on the beach

Birds gliding in the wind

Gorgeous conch shell

We hope you enjoyed this journey and we urge you to make a day trip soon.

Botany Bay Plantation Information