altwater marshes as far as the eye can see, lush with bulrush, sweetgrass and palmetto. This is the Lowcountry of South Carolina, an area literally dripping in natural beauty. The Lowcountry draws its name from being underwater as much as it is ever dry land. Here, where the Beaufort River meanders inland from Port Royal Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, is Beaufort, South Carolina, a town most consider to be the heart of the Lowcountry. Strategically located on a patch of high ground, where live oaks draped in Spanish moss shade the nearby grasses, Beaufort
