Folly Beach Fishing Pier Update

 

We hit Folly Beach on Friday of the long Memorial Day weekend. It was our son Joseph’s birthday and he came down from New York City to spend his special day with us. 

I also wanted to see what was going on with the landmark fishing pier that opened in 1995. What’s going on is that it’s coming down. 

Charleston County Parks and Recreation, which oversees the pier, announced last year that the structure would have to come down. But the good news is it will be replaced by a better pier with concrete pilings and other improvements and amenities. 

The current pier's wooden pilings are not in good shape. They've been infilitrated by destructive little critters called shipworms or marine borers. 

It's a long slow process looks like as the pier is being taken down one piece at a time. 

 

On this day the pier work did not prevent beach goers from gathering nearby and people could even go under the pier at times allowed by the workers. I took this shot of what it looks like under the not-here-for-much- longer structure. 

The new fishing pier is expected to be open in Spring 2023. Other than the construction or I should destruction going on Folly was a busy beach with fellow sun worshippers enjoying a warm sunny day. 

It was good to see these young people playing baseball (with a wiffle ball I believe) on the beach in front of the Tides Folly Beach Hotel (I didn't know it has a starbucks!).

Below photo- a C-130 Hercules cargo plane flies over Folly Beach perhaps on its way to Georgia. The big plane’s markings include Georgia Air ( National) Guard on the side of the fuselage and Savannah on the tail fin.

With birthday boy Joseph and my lady Alesia. Later that night we enjoyed a fabulous dinner at Burwell’s Stone Fire Grill in Charleston. I thoroughly enoyed the $50 New York Strip Steak I had there. I may just have a favorite new Charleton restaurant!  

By the way, here is a rendering of what the new Folly Beach Fishing Pier will look like.