Villages Balcony
This photo was captured with a Sony a6300.
Last Week
As summer comes to an end, I was reflecting back at all of the great places we've gone over the break. This photo is from the patio at the condo we stay at each summer at Wild Dunes.
This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300.
Intracoastal Kayaks
This photograph was captured with a DJI Mavic pro drone.
Building Sandcastles
This summer, the sand bar in front of the infamous Breach Inlet stretched for hundreds of yards out into the ocean during low tide, nearly connecting Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island. We spent a couple of hours walking out on the bar and exploring the hundreds of tidal pools left behind by the receding water. We celebrated our successful expedition with a little sandcastle building when we got back to the Isle of Palms beach.
This photograph was captured with a DJI Mavic pro drone.
Easing into Evening
We spent last week at one of my favorite places in the world, Wild Dunes. The pool pictured here, Palm Cove, was one of five pools within a five-minute stroll from our condo. It's also the most unique, with a natural, beach-like zero-entry grade on one end. It makes it great for families with little ones who aren't swimming yet. Now that our kids have morphed into fish, we spent a little less time at Palm Cove than we have in the past as we explored the other pools and ocean.
This photograph was captured with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone.
Last Light on Morgan Creek
The weather has been so warm this week that I've been daydreaming about long summer days at the beach... and trips to the Morgan Creek Grill at the Isle of Palms Marina. Just around the corner from Wild Dunes, the Marina makes for quick excursions around Charleston's barrier islands. And at the end of the day, Morgan Creek Grill makes for a memorable meal as the sun sets across the water over Goat Island.
This photograph was captured with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone.
Capers Island Dream
During one of our past visits to Wild Dunes, we took the Delphinus from the Isle of Palms Marina to Capers Island for a sunset tour. As soon as we hit the beach, I sent up the drone for a different perspective. The forest off the beach is so thick, I'm not sure you could make it through if you wanted to on foot.
Click here to check out some of the photographs that I took on Capers Island.
This video was captured with my old DJI Phantom 2 but if you're in the market for a drone today, check out the DJI Mavic Pro.
Morgan Creek Grill View
Morgan Creek Grill sits across the boat launch from the Isle of Palms Marina. It's one of the nicer seafood shacks you'll find on the coast. Not too nice, mind you. In fact, it's just right. The main floor is perfectly air-conditioned and full of the sort of people who enjoy air-conditioning at the beach. The second floor, though, with the roll-up windows and the sun beating down on the tables as it sets over the creek, that's where you want to be. I didn't even have to get out of my seat to take this photograph. Between the fresh seafood and these views, you can't go wrong dining on the second floor of the Morgan Creek Grill.
This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300.
Wild Dunes Yacht Harbor
There are just so many good things about Wild Dunes. Like the Yacht Harbor, lined with condos and modern Charleston row houses. Whenever we visit Wild Dunes, we always make a point to ride our bikes through the Harbor on the way to the Isle of Palms Marina for some ice cream. If your boat is in this photograph and you want to take it out for a spin and some photos the next time we're in town, let me know in the comments below!
This photograph was captured with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone.
Boardwalk Inn Sitting Room
The sitting room across from the lobby at Wild Dunes' Boardwalk Inn is a nice place to enjoy a coffee or wait for a friend. If you're not careful, you'll forget you're in the lobby of a hotel and not in a friend's living room (or some sort of fancy "parlor"). If you're looking for a quick getaway to Charleston and you haven't visited before, try spending a couple of nights at the Boardwalk Inn and then another couple of nights downtown. If you need suggestions for downtown hotels, comment below about the type of hotel you like and I'll offer up some advice. I think we've stayed in just about every hotel in downtown Charleston at least once at this point.
This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300.