{"id":4484,"date":"2015-11-21T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:04:00","slug":"heading-for-the-swamp-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Heading for the Swamp on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JohnBike2_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"John Bikes on Trail\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JohnBike2_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"JohnBike2\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We woke up to a much cloudier day with some rain predicted this afternoon and tonight. After that a big cold front is forecast to come in and drop the low temperature to near freezing on Tuesday morning.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We decided to take another bike ride early before any rain arrives. We rode over to see the big fishing pier near the campground at Clam Creek.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ClamCreekPier_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Clam Creek Pier\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ClamCreekPier_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"ClamCreekPier\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">W<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">e then headed back to the Historic District where you can read about how the Island was settled and visit their free museum which included a short movie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The map below shows the original town.<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JekyllHistoricDistrict-252520-252528Custom-252529_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto 9px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"JekyllHistoricDistrict (Custom)\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JekyllHistoricDistrict-252520-252528Custom-252529_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"JekyllHistoricDistrict (Custom)\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Peggy couldn\u2019t find anything to buy in the little gift shops.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We decided to head to what looked like a new shopping area near the Convention Center on the windy eastern side of the island. Most of the stores looked closed for the season.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We decided to bike back the way we came rather than fight the wind, so today we biked 13 miles. Peggy is getting stronger on her bike.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-793GBhdT70E\/VlDM5iWxj9I\/AAAAAAAAFIw\/ciGDGwAER4A\/s1600-h\/Map1%252520-%252520SC%252520to%252520FL%25255B3%25255D.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Map1-252520-252520SC-252520to-252520FL-25255B3-25255D_thumb-25255B1-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Map1 - SC to FL[3]\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Map1-252520-252520SC-252520to-252520FL-25255B3-25255D_thumb-25255B1-25255D-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Map1 - SC to FL[3]\" width=\"454\" height=\"719\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">If you recall, this summer, I posted our tentative itinerary. We have completed 2 to 5 and tomorrow we will do another short 130 mile drive to Stephen Foster State Park #6 in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. We have been here several times before. It a nice place to paddle your canoe in the large blackwater lakes filled with Cyprus trees.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">You can do longer overnight trips here with a permit and put your tent on the platforms they build along the canoe trails, but we just like to do day trips and return to our nice RV.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hopefully the cold spell will kill most of the mosquitos. All the other times we have been here have been in January or later and there has never been any.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">I don\u2019t know if we will make it to Ocean Pond #7 in Osceola NF\u00a0 by Thanksgiving or not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up to a much cloudier day with some rain predicted this afternoon and tonight. After that a big cold front is forecast to come in and drop the low temperature to near freezing on Tuesday morning. We decided to take another bike ride early before any rain arrives. We rode over to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heading for the Swamp on Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1516trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}