PDR News and Reviews: May 2012

In early May I took a trip to the beach for five days. I left on a Saturday morning and returned the following Wednesday afternoon. I will start this photo journey with the drive down I-95:
Stopping for lunch at South of the Border near Dillon, SC. I rode up to the top of a 300 foot elevator ride and took this photo:

Miles to go on I-95 south.

Food place named after my car: Ford Fiesta.

Reaching the palm trees territory at a rest stop on I-95 in SC.

Once I arrived at the villa at Beachwalk where we were staying, the weather was great and I jetted outside to pickup a bike at the rental shop and ride some trails in a nice loop around Shipyard. The bike ride to the sandy beach only took a few minutes. The clubhouse at the beach had some amazing flowers in bloom. Later I got out on the beach and used my boogie board to body surf some waves during low tide. This was the weekend of the supermoon, so I took some photos of that at night. When it was high tide there was not much left of the beach. It seemed that the high tide was around 7 to 8 pm each evening. One night I ate dinner at the Salty dog cafe and watched the tide come in.

Rental Bikes from Arrow Drive.

Red and Pink flowers at the Shipyard clubhouse beside the beach access path.

Small pond with flowers and fountain on a nice sunny afternoon.

Rough waves with this zoomed up surf photo.

Sitting on my boogie board drying out after a swim.

Bike ride through a dense, forest path on the island.

View of the Salty Dog cafe at low tide.

Another ride around a lake near the entrance to Shipyard.

View out the window having dinner at the Salty Dog Cafe.

The Supermoon of 2012 on May 6th from the beach.

Of course, I enjoyed playing two of my favorite sports, disc golf and tennis while on vacation. My Dad and I traveled to a course near I-95 called "The Sarge" It is designed around two lakes and several creeks with some shots over the water. I played very well scoring a few birdies, one over the lake on a short par three. The weather was great and the mosquitoes were not very bad. The next day I played in a round robin tennis tournament at the club across from our villa at beachwalk. Overall, it was not very challenging tennis, but did play against two or three 4.0+ players, including the club pro in two rounds. Another sport that everyone competed in was a friendly game of put-put at Pirate themed course. Check out some of these photos below:

I'm putting on hole 1, trying to avoid throwing into the lake.

This was one of the most challenging holes, the basket is only a few feet from the lake.

My dad after finishing a put on number 16.

The clay courts were I played in the round robin on Monday afternoon.

Dad putting at the Pirate course with water and rocks in the background.

Pirate cannon that is similar to the one used at ECU football games.

Other activities that I did was to shop and eat lunch at a popular place with public beach access a few miles down the road. There was some cool stuff in these shops and I purchased a few small things. I had lunch at a place that had a full sized harley motorcycle above the seats and other biker photos on the walls.
There was some cool wildlife on the island, and I just happened to be at the right place to take a few photos.
In the evening after dinner we played a card game while Austin and his friend played video games. I played a few video games with them as well, but they were too good, and my player didn't last more than a few minutes. I left for the drive back home in the morning, with a wave goodbye to the family and to a great May beach trip this year.