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South Carolina Islanders Brace For Luxury ‘EcoTourism’ Development
Six Senses of Bangkok has announced plans for a three-island “regenerative luxury” resort and spa in the Palmetto Lowcountry …
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Oh f’k. Here we go again…..
Out on Daufuski Island, the bulldozers bury the past;
And the Lowcountry sinks, she cannot swim;
The dogwood feels the hurt.
While a foursome plays on borrowed days
In their alligator shirts.
Now I realize who killed the Prince of Tides.
How can you tell how it used to be
When there’s nothin’ left to see?
— Jimmy Buffett, “The Prince of Tides”
Yet another reason to not visit HHI.
More foreign development sucking up and moving out of the country our American dollars.
You want a real ecotourism experience? Take a multi-day canoe trip down the Edisto River and stay a day or two at the delightful Edisto Treehouses – no electricity or running water, but quaint little houses built up in the trees with screened windows and doors to keep out the mosquitos….all on land placed in a conservation easement. Twenty years ago, you could stay there for a weekend for about 60 bucks per person – now its so popular it costs as much as a4 star hotel in Charleston – people fly in from Europe for this experience. I wish someone would build something similar on the Broad or upper Saluda!
New Age?
The developers of Melrose now are not embracing anything that is Daufuskie Island.
They are putting local businesses under due to ever expanding charges and are building fences to block us out.