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  • Photo: Island businessman Skip Hoagland, mastermind of the newly created Hilton Head Visitor and Convention Bureau, stands by his life-size alligator sculpture outside his Windmill Harbour home on Tuesday.
    Jay Karr, the Island Packet

Hilton Head businessman pursues formation of new tourism bureau

He sits beneath a menagerie of stuffed gamefish and near an assortment of Masai tribal spears acquired on safari in Tanzania. His living room, painted in dark red trim and adorned with drawings of soldiers throughout American history, seems a veritable tribute to aggression. (full story)

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  • Photo: Tom Taylor makes his way through grove of giant old-growth cypress trees at Congaree Swamp National Park in South Carolina on the hunt for champion trees.
    MATT RICHARDSON/Special to The Bluffton Packet

Life among the giants at Congaree Swamp National Park

The ranger smiled at us from his perch on the rail of the boardwalk. "The water is up in the swamp today after the rains. That's OK if you want to hike, though; we just got a new boat and will be happy to try it out by coming to rescue you." (full story)


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