July 22nd, 2008 by jim Posted in vacations
It’s been quite a while since we posted anything new, and part of the reason is that we were on vacation from July 14th to the 21st. We made the ten and a half hour, 660 mile trek to Edisto Island, SC with our dog and our boy, and had an awesome week at the beach.
We left Cincinnati around 7:30pm on Sunday night, and drove all the way through. We thought if we left at Lukas’ bedtime, he’d maybe sleep for a good portion of the trip. That didn’t really work out. He was really good, but he was awake for probably 7 hours… There was just so much going on, and he didn’t want to miss out, I guess… 
So we arrived at the island around 7 in the morning, and planned to hang out at the beach until our beachfront house was ready at 4pm. What a mistake that was! We were hungry, tired, but had our restless dog Boone and tired, but equally restless boy Lukas to take care of. What the heck were we thinking?!?
Anyway, we managed to set up a camp in the state park.
Our camp on the beach, the morning we arrived
And Lukas and I took a little nap in our beach cabana.
But by about 10:30am, we were really wondering how we were going to make it until 4pm, so we decided to call the rental place and see if we could get into the house early. By some fortune that can only be explained as God having mercy on us, our house was ready! We crammed all our stuff back into the Explorer, high-tailed it to the rental office, picked up our keys, and headed to our house, High Tide.
High Tide, from the beach
Over the course of the week, we found that Lukas really enjoyed the beach and the water (even though we went underwater unintentionally once… Dad’s fault, being a little too adventurous)
Lukas’ first experience with ocean waves
A wave almost goes over Dad and Lukas
The boys coming in after a long session in the waves
We had a little setup on the beach with our wading pool, some umbrellas, lounge chairs, our cabana, and of course, our family.
We had fun at the house too. Lukas liked crawling around on the deck outside. One day it was really windy, and he seemed to like that a lot.
Enjoying a windy evening on the deck
Hamming it up for the camera
One morning, we took a trip to Botany Bay Plantation to check out the beach there. Heidi took some really cool pictures, it was a little overcast, and the way the trees were growing on the beach and in the water, it was like something out of a Timothy Burton film.
Some gulls gliding over the waves at Botany Bay
And that same morning, on the way back from Botany Bay, we got some pictures of the “Mystery Tree”
All in all, it was a great trip, and we are already looking forward to returning to Ol’ Edisto next year!
Take a look at the rest of the pictures from our journey, but there are 200 of them, so don’t go there if you don’t have the time…
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