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28 PHOTO SAFARI: HOBCAW BARONY

Between

the

Waters:

The Allure of Hobcaw Barony

[ PHOTOGRAPHY encourages me to drive down roads upon which

I have never driven and to seek new places to visit.

Recently, I learned about Hobcaw Barony. De- In 1905, Wall Street financier Bernard M.
spite having lived most of my life in North Car- Baruch purchased the eleven rice plantations
olina and having visited the beaches north and that make up the property with the intention of
south of Myrtle Beach many times, I had never forming a winter hunting retreat. Throughout
heard of this place. I read an article about it in his fifty years of ownership, he hosted many
the Carolina Nature Photographers’s Associa- presidents and dignitaries there.
tion magazine, Camera Wild, and decided to In 1955, Baruch sold the Barony to his
check it out. daughter, Belle, who was a prize-winning
The Barony is a 17,500-acre reserve locat- equestrian. Before her death, she established
ed on the coast just east of Georgetown, S.C. a foundation to manage the land as an outdoor
It lies on a peninsula formed by the Wac- laboratory for the colleges and universities in
camaw River and the Atlantic Ocean—thus the South Carolina.
name “Hobcaw,” which is a Native American As a photographer, I found the sheer size
term meaning “between the waters.” of the property and the vastness of its marsh-

nyghtvision magazine volume 3, number 1, WINTER 2013