For our week at Edisto this year we were Susan E, Susan L, David, Hunter, Hunter's girlfriend Maddy, Graeme, Carson and me. Andrea and Lane were busy doing 20 something activities that involved the Oregon Wilderness and youngsters from Eurasia.

As in the past couple of times we've gotten together David served up amazing vintage cocktails and as in the past 10 years (for me; it goes back to the 80s for the Susans and David) we updated our "Lust List". In the past we have done nature walks, some more successful (ie, less mosquitos) than others but this year we found a true gem in Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area.
It is a large piece of land that once contained two plantations. The owner left the land to the state when she died and they have made it a wonderful place to drive/walk through and explore. We saw snakes, alligators, huge frogs and many birds. The plantations are no longer there save a few bricks, some small buildings and a well but the marsh, ponds, fields, forests and beach are amazing.

Highlights:

• A new and improved rental house - filled with light and a bit bigger than the one we've stayed in the last couple of years.
• Keeping one eye on the alligator in the middle of the pond as we ran around taunting the huge kitsch-like frogs.
• Maddy actually getting Hunter to eat a vegetable or two
• Eating fried fish and drinking at two local restaurants. At one we befriended a shy young lady named Carson.
• Listening to staffer Bruce's stories of hanging out with movie stars as they were filming at Botany Bay - Tim Roth, Jude Law to name two (there may have been only two)

Here are the drinks David made us.

• Bijou (gin)
• Floridita (rum)
• Clover Club (gin)
• Last Word (dry vermouth?)
• Fairbanks (gin) - my favorite
• Argentine Cocktail (gin)
• Mulata (rum)
• Agri Dolce (tequila) - group favorite

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Tags: edisto, friends