Spring day in the Carolina low country looking out on the golf course at Hidden Cypress. Click for a larger view.

Taken from an elevated walkway through one of the swamps in our development, Sun City Hilton Head.

Note that the sky is indeed Carolina Blue, which is a little odd because although we’re looking towards North Carolina, the border (at South of the Border) is about 200 miles away. To be entirely honest with you, the sky looked about the same in both places. We did drive past Pedro’s place on the way back here from North Carolina today.

Charleston, where the living is also easy, is only about 75 miles up the coast. Like Charleston, rice plantations also dominated this area, and to this day, gated developments are usually called “plantations.”