2015 was a great year on Dewees Island.  Along with some new owners (more on that in the next post), here is the Dewees Island 2015 Year in Review:

Winter:

Replacement of the pilings at the main dock, a situation which also involved removing the main roofed structure, replacing the pilings, and returning the roof structure.

Continued exploration of wetland restoration:

An interview with SIP magazine for a featured article on riding the ferry to school:

Final filming for the movie about Dewees:

Spring:

 

Our annual POA meeting with a program about identifying plants in your yard,

The POA meeting and oyster roast:

The premiere of our new movie:

A Catered dinner from Mi Xiao restaurant:

Our baby bald eagle falls out of the nest and is allowed to mature in place until he successfully flies up to the nest:

New extensions of the boardwalks because of all the beach accretion:

A celebration of the Kentucky Derby:

Summer

The annual Solstice/Musical is Oklahoma!, revisited as Carolina!  (I promise an entire post on this in the future!)

 

A plethora of Horseshoe crabs:

and environmental programs with our summer Conservancy interns:

The usual July 4th mayhem:

 

Creek floats:

and sunsets on the news

 

Dewees joined all other South Carolina coastal communities requesting that the Governor deny offshore drilling:

And our first ever Bioblitz, spearheaded by conservation ambassadors in our new Conservancy student outreach program. (Owners children and grandchildren can design service projects for the conservancy.)

And we got some new furniture at the pool:

Fall

The Annual Dammit!ball championship (this year with catered bar and snacks)

Which was eventually a washout:

And speaking of washouts, we got a record rainfall this fall– somewhere between 19 and 30 inches in one weekend: although the water on the island dissipated quickly, 

Some of the roads saw quite a bit of water, while homes stayed high and dry:

there were a few high tides that made getting to the ferry challenging on the Isle of Palms.

We had a great time taking a weather balloon we found in the marsh down to Channel 2.

And I got to watch my favorite weather guru in action, Josh Marthers!

 

The fall also brought lovely wildflowers, migrating warblers, and an incredible monarch migration:

This year’s Halloween party was at Huyler House:

Great fishing:

And we held our annual Catch-it-and-eat-it fish fry:

And a new soccer goal:

And a tour of the archives resources at the Landings Building with Eric Poplin, senior archeologist at Brockington associates, who helped us understand some of our treasures:

Winter:

New ramps at the ferry dock,

An unseasonably warm (and foggy) holiday, making for a white Christmas:

We’ll just start 2016 by sharing Claudia deMayo’s fabulous beach photo:

We’re looking forward to great new adventures!