
Afternoon Shadows and Gully Morris Island 16X 20"
There are many beautiful sea islands that surround Charleston, Beaufort, and Georgetown which remain unpopulated and sometimes remained remote; most now have been molested by housing projects and developments that have made these islands inhabited and subsequently altered. Islands to the north, such as Cape Island and Bulls Island, and to the south, Otter Island, Pritchard's Island, and Murphy's Island, remain untampered and raw, rustic, difficult to explore. One island remains uninhabited bordering Charleston Harbor and it's once dangerous and shallow inlet. Morris Island was once a large and beautiful sea island that was home only to the "lightkeeper" and one of the three previous lighthouses that made home of the island, helping ships to navigate their way into the harbor and over the shallow entrance sand shoals prior to entering the deep "channel" which coursed in a diagonal from southeast to the northwest prior to entering the harbor proper. This island has witnessed many shipwr