{"id":6533,"date":"2023-08-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2023-07-30T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:05:16","slug":"seabrook-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"Seabrook Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We coordinated a family beach week in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. Not everyone in our large family could make it, but there were twelve of us. We stayed in a beautiful house, steps from the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Seabrook Island is a private community about an hour south of Charleston, South Carolina. The island has golf and tennis. Sea turtles lay eggs here. Every morning, a team of volunteers is out on the beach checking on the turtle nests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are pros and cons to staying on Seabrook Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pros: The beaches are not crowded, and you do not have to look at ugly highrises along the coastline. Staying within walking distance of the beach is convenient. With a party of 12, we did not have to coordinate our outings. People were coming and going when it suited them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cons: There are not a lot of food choices on the island. We ate one night at the Pelican’s Nest, a restaurant near our house. It was underwhelming, it took a long time to get our food, and the wait staff was rude. There are good restaurants outside of Seabrook Island, but it’s at least a 25-minute drive. Also, If you are not a member, you cannot use the golf and tennis facilities in the morning when the heat is most bearable. The facilities are also expensive. It costs $20 per hour to play tennis or pickleball and $15 to use the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would not choose to return to Seabrook Island, but we had a wonderful time with our family. I got up most mornings to hang out with Milo. He was into farm animals and rockets. We sang Old MacDonald Had a Farm about 80 times. Lucas and Henry had fun hanging out with their cousin Vivian. Vivian was on the lookout for a boyfriend, but there was not much selection on Seabrook Island. Michael, Lucas, Jonathan and my dad played golf one afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n

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E-I-E-I-O<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Fun with Nana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A million dollar view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Beach break.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Catching some shade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Getting our steps in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We did a lot of cooking. It is too hard to try to take 12 people out for meals. I woke up for sunrise walks. Michael came on the walk on our last day. We set up shop on the beach each day with my dad’s Shibumi. Shibumi has a monopoly on Seabrook Island. It is Shibumi’s for as far as the eye can see on a sunny and windy day.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The dinner didn’t blow us away, but the wind almost did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Cooking for 12 is a big job.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A private beach at 6:30 am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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An important sand project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Shibumi City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We coordinated a family beach week in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. Not everyone in our large family could make it, but there were twelve of us. We stayed in a beautiful house, steps from the ocean. Seabrook Island is a private community about an hour south of Charleston, South Carolina. The island has golf and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[215,14,15],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-states","tag-seabrook-island","tag-travel-with-kids","tag-worldschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}