Beach Renourishment Project at Edisto

From The Charleston Post & Courier, February 27, 2006

The beach renourishment project is going to be great for Edisto Beach. I can't wait to see the results. Here are a few excerpts from the article:

The $7.7 million renourishment project, dredging sand from offshore, is scheduled to start mid-March and take two months.

"The public will be able to tell a difference. The beach is going to be wider," said Marion Edmonds, South Carolina Parks spokesman.

The dredging will run from that north edge of the state park to the last groin on the island's Saint Helena Sound southern flank. It's being paid for by $4.75 million in state money and a little more than $3 million in town and Colleton County money. It has a projected lifespan of 10 years.

We appreciate Edisto even more now

We just spent the weekend at Hilton Head Island at The Heritage golf tournament. Hilton Head is very nice, and we had a good time. However, we now have a new appreciation for the slow pace and laid-back attitude at Edisto. Hilton Head is very congested and overly-commercialized. There is just way too much going on there. I would describe Hilton Head as a "high-end Myrtle Beach".

Edisto, on the other hand, is much more of a "sit on the beach and read a book" sort of place. There isn't that overly-commercialized atmosphere at Edisto. Traffic at Edisto is almost nonexistent (not so at Hilton Head!), and we can pretty much let our kids run free without having to worry about them.

After coming home from Hilton Head, we are really looking forward to getting back to Edisto very soon!