Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things About Folly Beach

1.Locals refer to Folly Beach as "The Edge of America."

2. Folly Beach is a nesting site for loggerhead turtles and each year their nests are marked off.

3.Front beach houses are to leave their lights off at night b/c when the baby turtles hatch their instinct is to follow the moonlight to the water...a porch light just may confuse the poor little guys.

4. The Folly Boat sits on the side of the road and always has a new message painted on it by the locals. It was washed ashore in 1989 by Hurricane Hugo.

5. My mom and family painted the Folly Boat for my wedding, "Happy Nuptials!" For my rehearsal dinner, we had an oyster roast and Frogmoore stew(shrimp, polish sausage, corn on the cob, new potatoes..all thrown together and steamed..mmm..good) at a local restaurant on Folly..an excellent way to show the out-of-towners my hometown and a local tradition!

6. The Folly Beach Pier extends 1,045 feet into the ocean. Whether it's a romantic walk, dinner, shopping for souveniers, or fishing your interested in...you can find it here.

7. It is against the law to cut, destroy, or break the sea oats! No walking on the dunes please!

8. Folly Beach has a huge erosion problem and therefore must be renourished every so often.

9. In summer 2005, the renourishment was taking place during our vacation out here.

10. They had a dredger in the ocean and had a HUGE pipe that pumped sand from the bottom of the ocean and dumped it on the beach and bulldozers pushed it around and built the beach back up.

11. We walked each day to where they were pumping it and watched them build up our beach. They were about a 1/2 mile away from our house while we were here and kept getting closer..by the time we left in August we could see them from our house. By September, they were right in front of our house.

12. I am blessed to have a generous Bonus Dad that shares his family's beach house and has been doing so since 2000. We started vacationing with Mom and Bonus Dad getting 2 weeks to do our thing and now get our own week AND share their time...up to 3-4 weeks with them now! Woo hoo!

13.This is my most favorite place in the world and feel like I have found my niche in the world!





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