Photo of the Day: May River Glory, Bluffton, SC, Fall 2014

This is not the first time I included a picture of the May River on this site (see this prior post). But memory draws me back to this waterway, more than a year and a half after I first visited it, the way that locals and so many other tourists like me come back to what is often referred to as “the last true coastal village of the South.”

There are all kinds of neat galleries and historic homes just a short walk away, but many prefer to buy or catch fish—or, as Bob Dylan once sang, “watching the river flow” — by this Lowcountry waterway that bounds Bluffton, SC.

Photo of the Day: May River, Bluffton SC

As I mentioned in a prior post, the town of Bluffton, S.C. has become known for its restaurants and art galleries. But the great, beating heart of the community remains, as it has going back to the antebellum era, the May River. (The town, in fact, takes its name from its location, a bluff along the waterway.)

You really should see this when the sun is out but the temperatures aren’t too high—the situation when I took this photo last month while on vacation in nearby Hilton Head. It’s easy to see, on days such as these, how the Lowcountry seeps into the soul.