Huntington Beach State Park, SC | BAD TRAVELS

Huntington Beach State Park, SC

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This park is one of our favourites so far. Spent 2 weeks here and thoroughly explored the area Check out the BLOG!

Great place, tried their Jumbo lump crab cakes, good but expensive treat. Tasty shrimp and fish too.

Checking out the beach on one of our rides on one of the grayer and not so warm days.

One of the many “small” houses we biked by, lots of gorgeous properties

This Fox squirrel was hanging out by one of the MANY golf courses in the area, his unique colour caught my attention, he was a big guy .

This is one of the outer walls of Atalaya. It’s a square, 200 ft on each side. Like I said, looks more like a fort than a home

The meaning of Atalaya

This is the “watchtower” within the inner courtyards of the home

Design is based on Moorish architecture of the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

Inside one of the owner’s rooms. There are 30 rooms in total, half for the servants to live in and maintain the property. Cold and stark with all the brick, fireplaces in every room to provide heat.

This was her studio, she was a sculptor so she had a huge indoor and outdoor studio to work in.

Saltwater marsh in the park at high tide

Our first ‘gator and he was in the park. This guy was small, only about 3 feet and we were so close we could have touched him...but we didn’t. His big friends were about 6-8 ft long.

Don’t know what kind of spider this is, just glad I saw him before I walked into his web...he was BIG!

Park beach at sunrise and high tide....beautiful!

The four dots out there are pelicans, just cruising by at sunrise.

One of the park boardwalks/lookout.

Just to put it in perspective, the birds are in the fresh water side, beyond the causeway is all saltwater marsh that leads to the ocean.

All kinds of different birds hang out together here.

Woodstorks - Bizarre looking, kinda prehistoric like heads

The prettiest bird, the roseate spoonbill

A young blue heron

This ‘gator and his turtle friends were hanging out at a big lake in the Barefoot Landing shopping plaza

We moved from a site that was really shaded and enclosed, to this more open one. Much better to enjoy the sun when it finally came out. The tree here was amazing, see next pic.

Cool tree eh?

Monkeying around

Local Fisherman with his catch, a Red Drum. Too big to keep so he had to throw it back in. Too bad, supposed to be good eatin’

Beach we biked along and the jetty out to where the fishermen were.

Biking on the beach

Told you mother nature makes the best bike path! See the stretch of beach way down there on the right with no houses on the horizon, that’s the park where we started our ride from.

Another beautiful sunrise

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