Historic Lynches River

Lynches River Park is where Gregg and I will be camping for a couple of nights next weekend. Early this week we went to have a look around and see if the campsites were dry. I snapped a couple of photos while we were there, nothing very good, but I did get one of a sign posted at the entrance to the river platform trail that may be of interest to Mr Yorkshire Pudding. I took these just for him.

I love following YP's  walks around his home in the English countryside. The places he gets to visit are astonishing to me because of their antiquity. There's so much history for him to share, and it's always a real treat when he blogs about the places he visits.

This part of South Carolina where I live was heavily involved in the Revolutionary War. The rivers were an important part of the war, as well as the rest of our relatively short history as a state. Rivers provided a means of transport and travel in our very earliest days.

When the first British colonists settled here, what a different world it must have seemed. A New World in every sense of the word, with only a few small and scattered tribes of Native Americans inhabiting this vast land. I can hardly imagine how huge and wild and bursting with possibility it must have seemed.

Here are a few photos I took the other day at Lynches River.  Please forgive the quality; I took these with my phone. When we go camping I'll dig out my camera to take so I can get some better ones.

The last photo is my favorite. This looks like home to me. I grew up not far from here in a town close to the Pee Dee river, and only about 40 miles from the beaches. The flat land, sandy soil, pine trees, and Spanish moss are typical of the place I'm from.

Lovely Lynches River park

It has been a wonderful week off work for me, and the highlight was a one-night camping trip we took to nearby Lynches River county park. It's close enough (12 miles away) that we can easily go for a single night without too much trouble, and since Ginger the dog had never been camping before, we wanted to start her off with a very short trip to see how she would do. (She seemed to like it!).

Lynches River park is a true little gem hidden away in the middle of our boring little county. It has the beautiful river, of course, but also an educational/discovery center, cabins, campgrounds, a splash pad, archery range, a baseball field and playground, and lots of nature trails winding through the woods. The park is an excellent place to check out the flora and fauna of the Carolina Piedmont.

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words, so here are some of the photos I took to share:



Spanish moss is everywhere

 

 

 

 

The river walk

 

A dog and her boy

 

Ginger beside Lynches river

 

Playground

 

Educational Discovery Center

 

 

A fenced off, old family graveyard from
before the days when this land was a public park.

 

Our trusty old tent.



Camp dog!



Crescent moon rising over camp.