Around Murrells Inlet and the Park

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Huntington Beach State Park, SC

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Just a few pictures from around Murrells Inlet and Huntington Beach State park.  Check out the BLOG!


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Just south of Myrtle Beach and WAAYYY less touristy.

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We walked into Murrells inlet and I found the names people give their waterfront homes intriging.

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I wonder if the people that have the giant fishing lure mail box fish???

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Our site at Huntington Beach State park.

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Our “street”.

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Just outside the park gift shop and office.

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This is the outside of Atalaya, the original house on the property.

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The beach at relatively high tide still.

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This is the beach version of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. The decorations get added to it daily.

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The jetty where most of the good fishing happens. It’s a 1.5 mile walk from the closest parking lot. A full 3 miles from our campground boardwalk to the beach.

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Dave’s first catch. A sea bass

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The have to be 13” to keep…this one’s still got some growing to do.

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My first catch. A spot tail pin fish. We used him for bait but in hindsight based on what we haven’t been able to catch, we should have kept and eaten it!

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I think I lost my mind when I caught this fish….I didn’t take my picture with it so you can’t tell how big it is. It’s a red fish, great eating but it was 25” long. 2” too big to keep. Dang it all, had to throw it back in and haven’t caught one any close to this big since!

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It’s a twofer sea bass catch. Both too small to keep though.

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Surf fishing near the campground. Sun was just setting, the sunsets are stunning.

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Some of the local residents of the marsh.

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Small beach bird, not sure exactly what it is but we call them “peeps” based on the noise they make. They’re always hanging around hoping to score or should I say steal bait.

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Egrets fishing on captive fish in low tide pools.

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The birds attract quite the audience. There are plenty of birders around here and they carry some mighty big cameras.

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I was lucky enough to see these osprey catch a couple of fish and then I saw them in this tree eating them about 10 minutes later on my walk.

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It’s hard to see in this pic but that white thing that looks like it’s sticking out back of it’s legs is the fish. It was flapping its tail agains the branch as the osprey was eating it. Kinda gruesome.

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A tri coloured heron. They’re just little guys.

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Biked down the beach this day, it’s a great work out.

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On that same ride I came across this grouping of 5 horseshoe crabs. I usually only find the shells they molt but all 5 were alive….unusual.

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Further up the beach this one was flipped upside down. This is what they look like underneath….pretty prehistoric things. I righted him to protect him from the birds.



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