Santee State Park - SC - Picture Thread

[Man in Black]

We rang in 2008 on Lake Marion in Santee State Park. They have ten pier cabins that are actually out on 2 piers over the water! It's a beautiful place and we had a blast... This thread may take a minute to load but I think the pictures are worth it as they give you an interesting view of a place you've probably never been.


Here is our cabin on the rainy day we arrived... Bobbins is peeking out the door



This is a good view of the pier and cabins - Ours is the one on the end


This is the epitome of "waterfront"


Morning deer tracks


The water levels were down tremendously but the birds don't seem to care


Drago have you ever done this to a boat?


These cypress trees rocked!


My Mom beachcombing


Silly Bobbins and his all weather umbrella


The cabins each had a walkway that went around the whole building... what fun!


Cypress sunset


The low water made for a unique landscape


I've never seen this many freshwater shells


I couldn't get enough of the textures on this beach


"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree" - Joyce Kilmer


It's always nice to see Mom enjoy herself this much


Fireworks + Water = Magic


Golden sundown


The Santee area is pocked with limestone sinkholes and these neat little water spiders were skipping around in a sinkhole pond we walked to


Spider takeoff!


A Sinkhole pond


The Bobbins and his camel


You will see pine trees at Santee!

The graves of a million trees


My Mom recalls carving limestone as a girl


Is this the Santee lake monster?


Or is this the Santee lake monster? YIKES!


Where there is live oak and cypress there is Spanish moss

[4C-696E]

I love the picture of the sea monster! Your kid is adorable. I'm guessing you're the 'camel'?

[Man in Black]

Yep, I'm the camel. My Mom found that sea monster, she's a lot like me in the imagination department

[4C-696E]

I bet my kids would like that wooden sea monster pic about as much as they like your Transformers sig. I'll have to show that to them tonight.

[Xenopaul]

nice pics mib, what kind of fish is that, is it a gar of some kind?

[4C-696E]

As I thought, my kids love them.

[Man in Black]

xenopaul said:

nice pics mib, what kind of fish is that, is it a gar of some kind?

Cool!

XP that is a gar, a Longnose Gar to be exact.

[Drago]

Drago have you ever done this to a boat?

I'm sad to report that I've never done that to a boat..........................yet.

These are AWESOME pics, MIB! What a beautiful place!

[Man in Black]

Thanks Drago.

That's the first time I've ever seen a boat done that way myself, but it does look like an awful good way to sneak up on wildlife, for hunting or picture taking. I am guessing that these fellows were deer hunting that morning.

[Drago]

admin said:

Thanks Drago.

That's the first time I've ever seen a boat done that way myself, but it does look like an awful good way to sneak up on wildlife, for hunting or picture taking. I am guessing that these fellows were deer hunting that morning.

I'm pretty that they were duck hunting. That's a typical set up for duck hunters, but it would be helpful to see a dog in the pic. That would be the cincher.

[Man in Black]

They didn't have a dog, I was right by the boat ramp when they unloaded. But they definitely could have been fowl hunting because there were birds everywhere.