Botany Bay Ecotours

03/01/2025

Oh YES! Add oysters on the 1/2 shell to your Private Sunset Cruise! Swell Raw Bar’s 50 shucked oysters on ice are the perfect complement to an Edisto sunset cruise.

03/01/2025

Have you seen the “big game of shorebirds”?
Take a sunset cruise in late April and early May and we can watch them head to roost! Text 843-869-2998 to book.

Vast flocks of Whimbrels were thought to be a thing of the past, until a wildlife biologist discovered nearly 20,000 of these declining shorebirds on a tiny South Carolina island.

02/21/2025

Beachcombing Walking Tours and Marvelous Meals by Marvetta are available this spring.

Have a Spring Fling with US!
Easy online booking at botanybayecotours.com

02/21/2025

We are booking for March and April-Private and Public Boat Ecotours. Online booking or text 843-869-2998. We are adding more public tours this season to lower the price- so hop on board! Can't wait to see you.

10/20/2024

For many years I went to Sapelo Is, GA annually as an instructor for K-12 teacher continuing education. What a wonderful community I met in Hog Hammock who shared their island with us. I am heart-broken to hear of the dock collapse this weekend that killed 7 and injured more. Capt Meg

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08/07/2024

Heeheehee

08/07/2024

Whatever helps get you through the summer doldrums! ! Apply now :)

08/07/2024

I’ve always liked Little Debbie, but maybe not anymore…

07/01/2024

High on the Hog by Dr Harris (and the netflix doc by the same name) traces the foodways of the African diaspora. Guess where the first stop was after leaving the shores of W Africa? Charleston. Sea Island cooking has direct links back to knowledge and techniques from W. Africa. Join a Marvelous Meal by Marvetta for an immersion experience in Gullah/Geechee cooking.

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WHAT IS SOUL FOOD? LEARN WITH THESE SOUL FOOD HISTORY BOOKS YOU MUST BUY

Click to read: https://www.blacksouthernbelle.com/what-is-soul-food-learn-with-these-soul-food-history-books-you-must-buy/

06/25/2024

It's a mystery why the "mystery tree" is decorated with lights when light pollution is a growing problem. Migratory birds and all kind of nocturnal animals need a dark sky. Please keep the lights to a minimum. There is no reason to decorate a natural object in a beautiful view-scape with plastic trash and lights. Calling Miss Pearl....

06/24/2024

Mercy my, Babe! We’re getting alot of media interest these days! Palmetto Life came to see us this month and is coming back in July!!

06/20/2024

Team effort: Big Bear Roofing, Hutchinson Heritage Foundation, the beloved home owner (this wasn’t charity- we all contributed- it was a community “roof raising”), Marvelous Meals by Marvetta, and life-long Edisto Beach visitors made this possible!!

A well-loved figure on Edisto Island has a new roof thanks to organizations who have wanted to make a difference in the Gullah Geechee community.

06/18/2024

It is an honor to partner with Greg Estevez to share Edisto Island’s history. Recent research has reminded us of the unjust practices after Reconstruction when land was stripped from freed people. Greg joins the researcher behind “40 Acres and a Lie” the podcast about this research.

First Coast Connect 6/17/24

06/18/2024

Edisto and our history is on national news these days- as it should be….

Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.

06/17/2024

On our tour called The African American Journey in collaboration with author Greg Estevez we talk about “40 acres and a mule” and what it meant for Edisto. Take the time to listen to this podcast. It’s a hard history we should all know.

Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land – only to see it returned to their enslavers.

06/12/2024

Private sunset cruise

06/04/2024

06/03/2024

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