2/7 Dixie Plantation
The FYE class drove around 30 minutes to Hollywood, SC to reach the destination of Dixie Plantation. The temperature was around 77 degrees with a low of 59- a day where many students would sulk through the woods, sweaty, and thirsty for water. Dixie Plantation is an 881 acre property where the College of Charleston has a field cabin for it's students that are in disciplinary majors from biology, to marine biology, to forest preservation may study in. Upon arrival, boots were provided as the students were expected to trudge through muddy/ water flooded areas. Traps were previously placed to collect specimen. The first round revealed crawfish, frogs and infantile fish in the traps. A few students split off to frolic through the woods and encountered a snake, which quickly hid. The students then followed trails through the woods identifying things from trees, shrubs, fungi to deer carcasses and deer scat. An ominous blood trail was even found. The property was extremely waterlogged to the point where the travel van almost got stuck in soft ground.
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great post. pics that you have are good....but I’d like to see a greater diversity of species. We saw several other things that are not photographed above (a few fishes, invertebrates and several plants).
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