Carolina Bays

Carolina Bays have been a source of fascination for visitors to the low country of South Carolina since the time of their discovery. They are fragile and unique ecosystems, wetland habitats that exhibit a variety of vegetative components. Some bays are open-water depressions dotted with pond cypress trees and rimmed by pitcher plants and sundew. Other bays are thick pocosins of shrubby sweetbay, fetterbush and pond pines. They can be one acre or thousands of acres.

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