2+ hour, 34+ min ago  (886+ words) If you’ve recently traded a suburban driveway for a view of the salt marsh, welcome. A Lowcountry wonder is unfolding in the creeks around you that most of the world never gets to witness — and once you know what to…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1195+ words) Beaufort County Council members narrowly decided on Monday to postpone a vote to grant $42 million to the Nature Conservancy for the acquisition of 4,950 acres of pristine forest in Bluffton, following concerns raised by residents of Palmetto Bluff. The man who…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (468+ words) A shorebird with a “comically long” bill thrilled bird lovers for weeks when it unexpectedly turned up on Harbor Island east of Beaufort, before being summarily chased off the beach. It was a long-billed curlew, which is a rare sight…...

5+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (789+ words) On a late January evening, hundreds of redfish clustered into a sliver of shallow green water in tidal waters a stone’s throw from the bridge between Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, surrounded by a sea of pluff mud at low…...