With our new app, taking a walking tour of the Hammock Coast® has never been easier Two of the most celebrated historians on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast® – Lee Brockington and Ron Daise – have lent their distinctive voices to a new app that lets visitors experience our vacation destination like never before. The new app, simply titled Hammock Coast and available for download at the… Mar 25, 2024 0 Georgetown, Hammock-All, Pawleys Island
Living with Water: New art exhibition and symposium at the Rice Museum In a powerful homage to the delicate relationship between humanity and the ever-shifting tides, artists Vida Miller and M.P. “Squeaky” Swenson unveil their latest collaboration, “Living with Water,” an evocative art exhibit set to run from March 23 to May 30, 2024, at The Rice Museum in Georgetown on South… Mar 22, 2024 0 Georgetown, Hammock-All
Brookgreen named one of America’s Best Botanical Gardens by USA Today Visitors and residents of South Carolina’s Hammock Coast® know that Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet is “Ever Changing, Simply Amazing” (as the slogan goes) and has earned accolades. The latest recognition comes from USA Today which included Brookgreen Gardens at No. 7 in its 2024 10Best list of “Best Botanical… Mar 21, 2024 0 Hammock-All, Murrells Inlet
Huntington Beach State Park heads for new heights with annual Kite Festival Hundreds of colorful kites of all shapes and sizes — from triangles and diamonds to animals such as birds, turtles, fish, jellyfish, butterflies, dragonflies, and octopi — will soon fill the sky on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast®. Huntington Beach State Park will host its third annual Kite Festival on Saturday, March… Mar 20, 2024 0 Hammock-All, Murrells Inlet
Annual Burning of the Socks event: Out with the old (socks), in with the new The tradition of burning old, smelly winter socks to usher in the spring season began in the mid-1980s in Annapolis, Maryland, and lives on today at the South Carolina Maritime Museum on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast. Capt. Bob Turner, who lives in Pawleys Island and is active in the Georgetown… Mar 14, 2024 0 Georgetown, Hammock-All
You can vote for Murrells Inlet in the ‘Best Small Town in the South’ contest Murrells Inlet is many things to many people. The “Seafood Capitol of South Carolina,” certainly. Home to Brookgreen Gardens, Huntington Beach State Park and the MarshWalk, of course. And a hamlet that once a fishing village and, legend goes, to the pirate, Blackbeard. Now, it’s in the running to be… Mar 04, 2024 0 Hammock-All, Murrells Inlet
Take a thrilling ride in a vintage B-29 bomber plane this April in Georgetown You can experience the thrill of flying in a World War II bomber aircraft this spring on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast® as part of a special four-day event. B-29 Doc, one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortress aircraft built by the Boeing Company in Wichita, Kansas, during World War II and one… Feb 27, 2024 0 Georgetown, Hammock-All
Celebrated ‘Swamp Fox’ gets his day in Georgetown on March 2 The public is invited to celebrate Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, famously known as the “Swamp Fox,” during a day of free events on Saturday, March 2, in Georgetown on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast®. The Francis Marion Living History Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at… Feb 22, 2024 0 Georgetown, Hammock-All