Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve/ Wildlife Management Area

Botany Bay’s beach is a must-see destination for anyone coming to Edisto Island. This beach is accessible via a half-mile walk across a shell-packed trail that cuts through the marsh and winds through a maritime forest. It’s common to see numerous birds, fiddler crabs, and other native animals during the walk to the beach.

While visiting Botany Bay, visitors can expect to come across deer, snakes (some of which are even venomous), alligators, lizards, egrets, seagulls, sea turtles, fiddler crabs, clams, mussels, oysters, blue crabs, ghost crabs, dozens of sea birds, and racoons.