Great Week end in Folly but what was that smell? (Charleston: hotel, beach)
Charleston areaCharleston - North Charleston - Mt. Pleasant - Summerville - Goose Creek
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We had a wonderful week end in Folly/Charleston (as always)... has some awesome food at Bowens Island (as always again!).. Love the new building. Wasn't able to get in the ocean.. water was way to cold for us... had a blast just people watching on the beach. We noticed some kind of "smell" in the air.. usually first thing in the mornings.. we stayed on Savanah Hwy and noticed it there but on Folly Beach too...never noticed it before... we have never been this late in the year either... just wondering what it was...
I bet it was the marsh because the tide was very low and no we didn't make it to see the lights we didn't get in till really late Friday night.. well actually Saturday by the time we check into the hotel.. hubby had a mtg that lasted alot longer than he thought and it takes about 5 - 6 hours to get there and after we were up at 6:30am Saturday and with the full day we had (we walked out to Morris Island.. LOVE IT) we were dog tired by 8:00.. so I do regret not driving thru to see them..
I've noticed over the past week that the marsh has taken on a much more pleasant sweet smell than the typical summertime crap smell you get around here. The cooler temps (frost on the immediate coast 2-3 times this week) must be knocking out some of that odor causing bacteria.
As you enter the cooler temperatures, more of the marsh grasses start breaking down and decomposing into our wonderful pluff mud (from the bacterias). The odor released by the decomposition is strongest during this time, thus at certain times you will notice the smell more than others. In addition, low tide will intensify the smell since more of the fresh pluff mud and grasses are exposed.
I'll agree with the above in that the marsh smells better during the winter...or at least it has lately. It is more of a nice marsh smell like I was used to up in North Carolina. There, the marshes actually smell good. Down here they tend to smell like "crap"...especially in the summer.
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we didn't get in till really late Friday night.. well actually Saturday by the time we check into the hotel.. hubby had a mtg that lasted alot longer than he thought and it takes about 5 - 6 hours to get there and after we were up at 6:30am Saturday and with the full day we had (we walked out to Morris Island.. LOVE IT) we were dog tired by 8:00.. so I do regret not driving thru to see them..
