Hilton Head Island – Nov. 9-10
Posted by Fay on November 12, 2006
We had an uneventful 4.5 hour drive to Hilton Head Island. It is hard to imagine in the morning you are in the mountains and in the afternoon you are at the ocean. Our Westin Hotel looks very nice and not at all crowded. We woke up to SUMMER – 75 degrees. We spent Friday relaxing in the hotel, sitting in the big hot spa and walking the beach. Our hot tub is the thing I miss the most. Very relaxing.
Food is good but expensive. At a very nice restaurant I had an appetizer of fried green tomatoes with crab and brie cheese. Yum. I have crab in some form where ever I can find it.
We have a nice balcony and can read the morning paper while having coffee to start out the day at our slow pace. Did I mention no crowds!!! Even so, the traffic on the one main road seems heavy. I can’t imagine what it must be like during the peak tourist/golf season with most of the people visitors like us who don’t know where we are going. They have these road things called turnarounds that are really wicked in the pitch black of night driving. The island is only 5 by 12 miles and I think I read it has 60 golf courses! The other main attraction seems to be shopping. Pretty as it is, since I don’t golf and hate to shop this is probably not going to be a place I revist.
Bob and I have a tradition of taking a bottle of wine, cheese, crackers, fruit or other snacks to eat down by the beach as the sun sets and that was fun. The sky looked like it was on fire!
The only downside is there is a big dredging platform off shore and it makes a horrible racket all the time. Really takes away from th calm sound of the waves rolling in. It sounds like a helicopter flying high overhead.
