Botany Bay, South Carolina Plantation Tour | 10K Road Trip Vlog Day 27
Botany Bay Plantation is a great day trip from Charleston (about an hour southwest on Edisto Island). It's a historic heritage preserve and wildlife management area. The main draw is the beach - a few miles of pristine, undeveloped South Carolina coastline. Unfortunately, the beach was closed due to damage from Hurricane Matthew, but the plantation tour is still worth driving.
This is Day 27 of our 10,000 mile road trip across the US.
Botany Bay Plantation is a combination of two smaller plantations: The Bleak House Plantation and the Sea Cloud Plantation. You drive along a dirt road and stop at 15 points of interest and read about various historic sites (some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places). Entrance to the Plantation is free, as are the guide and map. It's interesting and takes about an hour.
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Botany bay plantation heritage preserve WMA and Edisto beach island state park 2019
Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve/Wildlife Management Area is a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Botany Bay Plantation was formed in the 1930s from the merger of the Colonial-era Sea Cloud Plantation and Bleak Hall Plantation, the biggest attraction in this heritage preserve is the wild and unspoiled beach known as Driftwood beach, covered with seashells and old growth trees, a truly amazing sight.
Edisto beach State park is a sanctuary for wildlife and there were so many loggerhead turtles nest all along the sandy beaches and dunes.
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Botany Bay Plantation, South Carolina | MOTM VLOG #18
Botany Bay Plantation, South Carolina | MOTM VLOG #18
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The day after Christmas we went for another hour long drive to go to the Botany Bay Plantation. This place was actually recommended to us by one of our followers – big thanks because this place was amazing!
Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve/Wildlife Management Area is a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina. It was formed in the 1930s from the merger of two Colonial-era cotton plantations: Sea Cloud Plantation and Bleak Hall Plantation. It is over 4,000 all told, with plantation ruins, marine and estuarine wetlands, pine-hardwood forest, agricultural fields, and 2 miles of undeveloped beachfront used for nesting by endangered loggerhead sea turtles and least terns.
The plantation has free admission, and you take a self-guided driving tour through the preserve. The natural beauty is breathtaking, from the Spanish moss to the salt marsh and the beach.
The Boneyard Beach is a spectacular shoreline with amazing tree skeletons in the surf and untouched shells! There was a melancholy beauty about the trees on the eroding shoreline.
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McConkey's Jungle Shack Edisto, South Carolina
This week we check out McConkey's Jungle Shack in Edisto, South Carolina. They serve fresh seafood and it is really a dive type restaurant. It has a really cool atmosphere, kind of funky and beachy. All of the seating is outside seating. Some of the seating is inside a screen in porch but it is all outside. McConkey's Jungle Shack is sitting beside Bi-Lo's grocery store. It actually shares the same parking lot as Bi-Lo's.
If you are in the area, make sure to check out this really cool place.
McConkey's Jungle Shack
108 Jungle Rd
Edisto, South Carolina 29438
According to McConkey's Website about the history of the name,
Long ago, Edisto Breach was known as McConkey’s Beach and the “main drag” now named Palmetto Boulevard was called McConkey’s Boulevard.
A Canadian family, the McConkey’s, moved to Edisto Island in the late 1800’s, and bought a plantation originally named Locksley Hall encompassed approximately 2000 acres including the present-day Edisto Beach State Park, as well as all of the land which is now Edisto Beach. The plantation soon became known simply as the McConkey Place.
The history of this plantation was already a sad one. William Edings had built the mansion in the early 1800s, a three-story Federal-style stucco home designed as a “single house”, which architecturally mean the floor plan is one room deep.
The Edings family experience so many personal disastrous events in an around the home that the place become known as “the house tragedy”. Edings’ first wife died in childbirth and is buried at the foot of the veranda stairs. The son she bore committed suicide; an adopted son accidentally killed his nanny and then himself; two young daughters died of diphtheria within a single week AND ALL OF THIS OCCURRED BEFORE THE MCCONKEY’S LIVED THERE!
After the Civil War, the Edings family never returned to Locksley Hall and the plantation was taken over by a “carpetbagger” named Wright, who had his workers destroy the gravesites of four generations of the Edings family buried on the plantation grounds.
The tragedies continued with the McConkey's. James McConkey died under “mysterious circumstances” in 1892. Erina McConkey, according to legend, committed suicide in 1915. His murder was never solved, although many Edistonians from previous generations have offered their opinions, and it is commonly believed the killer is known but was never prosecuted.
The place was then owned by another family and ultimately brought by Navy Admiral Murphy and remains in that family to this day. Even though every self-respecting family on this island embraces its own residential ghosts, the present owner of the plantation, (now known as Seaside) reports no “unusual” events. Make sure you stop by our Amazon Storefront to check out our recommended items amazon.com/shop/southernfoodjunkie
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