Hamilton Branch State Park | BIRTHDAY WEEKEND! | RV Life - (Mission 029)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- South Carolina's Hamilton Branch State Park, located between the small towns of Modoc and Plum Branch, is a park we'd been meaning to visit for quite some time, and Smokey's birthday weekend was the perfect "excuse" to finally spend a three-day weekend there! Of course, as is usual for us, the rain had to put in an appearance... 🌧 Take a look as we show you around this lovely, heavily-forested park on the shores of Lake Thurmond, and you'll see why it's so very popular with Central Savannah River Area campers!
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YUK on the spider webs...that is why we always carry our hiking sticks with us...lol...great to see you guys back out there...we are back out next week - gotta love Fall camping too...Donna & Darin
Oh, yeah - we Deep-Southerners all live for October and November, don't we!?!? Thanks for watching!
Thank you as well for giving us a tour of the park. And it did seem quiet there. That was your present to yourselves was to just go have peace and quiet. Well deserved. You both work hard you needed a break. Can’t wait until next video. See you both real soon! ! Have a great week
Definitely! Peace and quiet were just what the doctor ordered!
Hi Smokey and Jesse! Just wanted to let you know this was great seeing the park you stayed in. It looked very nice and clean. On a few down trees from the storms. The hike looked great to do the loop. It’s really good to see you both again. Happy Birthday Smokey! Belated!
🎂🎁🎉 Glad the rain cleared up.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Great fun 👍 thumbs up. Always enjoy watching your camping adventures
Thanks a bunch! We're tickled pink you liked it!
Bring your bikes for Fort McAllister. Fish tales, just a bike ride up the road, is a great place one evening for dinner. We enjoyed the tour of the Fort. There is a lot of deer out there at night.
Ooo!! Thanks for the info! We're procrastinating about researching down there (coming from us, that's a big shock...right...?), so any tips are greatly appreciated!
Happy belated birthday. And glad to see your video. We sold our home in NC and have bought another home in TN. We are staying in our camper till we close. If you ever come to Jonesborough TN stay at Riverview campground small campground. The owner keeps it so nice and clean.
We keep a list of campground "possibilities," so we'll surely add that one to it! Thanks for watching!
Heading up there next weekend! It'll be our 2nd trip there. Bringing the kayaks and looking forward to some time on the water. Looks like you had enough of a break in the rain to enjoy some getaway time. Happy Birthday (belated)! Thanks for the great content as always.
Weeks before this trip, we had delusions of taking our inflatable kayak, but as the forecast became gloomier and gloomier, we didn't even bother. 😞 Glad you're still keeping tabs on us!
I've never seen T sites that seems like a pain! Great informative video! -Alecia and Kevin from Paving Paths
Weird, right!?!? Praise the Lord for pull-through sites! Thanks for watching!
Happy Birthday!! Glad you guys had a good time in spite of the weather!!
Thanks!! The weather cut us a little slack Friday and Saturday. Thank you for watching!
Belated Happy Birthday! Sorry you got rained out, but it stopped I see. I’ve camped here several times. It’s nice. Especially on a blue sky day. Never walked the trail yet. Thanks for the tips. There’s also two other trails I know of near by. Lick Fork Lake Trail. A 1.9 miles loop. And Horn Creek Trail. A 5.7 miles loop. As always. Enjoyed the video!
We'll get back there someday, and if the law of averages plays out, sooner or later it won't be raining! Thanks for watching!
Happy Birthday. It sucks that it was raining for your special weekend. The site looked really lovely, as does the rest of the park. Great video. Thank you for sharing. Peace and Safe Travels.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, it rained, but we've been soaked a lot worse than we were this particular weekend. It sure could've been worse!
Well happy birthday, mine was on the 14th
Right back atcha!! Three days is close enough that we could've had a joint celebration. 🎂
Hamilton Branch State Park has 200 campsites. It’s on their park map online. Some were probably closed off. They also have 6 “H” sites which means Hike-In for groups. Not sure if you can camp on those or not. Just thought I’d share. Great video. Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
We like spot 124 at Hamilton it's a tent site but u can get to the lake from the side of the site and it's next to the bathroom just gotta have water shoes because of all the rocks in the lake.
You lost us at "tent..." 😜 KIDDING!! You're right - tent campers, or those with a pop-up or a teardrop trailer, fit right in here. Thanks so much for watching!
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Thank you! We're so glad you're watching!
That's a beautiful park, so glad the weather got better for ya. Happy belated birthday! 😁
Thanks so much! 😊 As usual, we imagine it's even prettier when it's DRY!!! 🤦🏼♂️
I have concluded that the left side sites are for motor homes, where you can pull in forward.
That is an extremely logical deduction... one that we didn't think of at all!! 🤔
Great to see another part of our state I haven't seen before. I always enjoy y'all's adventures!
Always glad to show off SC's "wonders!" Thanks for watching!
The site looked ok. I probably would have just filled my tank since my tank fill is on the fun side. Sorry it rained on you special weekend.
If the water being on the "wrong" side was the worst thing to happen that weekend, I'll take it! All in all, it was a great way to spend "Annual Solar Orbit Completion" Day! 😎
Really enjoy your videos! We camp often on that body of water on the Clark's Hill side at Mistletoe State Park. We live in FL and it's our go to at least 1x a year. Will try this park, appreciated you pointing out the oddity of the T type camping areas. We'll opt for pull- thru. We'll want lakeside...as we have kayaks always at the ready :-) We also tow a 25' Forest River product, a Flagstaff Micro Lite, with a Tundra. Ours is a long bed...is yours? Look forward to your future adventures! Safe travels!
Yes, our "Big Red" is a long-bed Tundra, too! If you like Mistletoe, you'll dig Hamilton Branch. We love Mistletoe, too, but it's a little more "open" than HB, so all the extra tree cover at HB gives it a different feel. Hey, thanks so much for watching!
@Live 'n' Learn RV thank you! Will definitely check it out. We REALLY seek as private a camping spot as we can. We typically do drive bys when in the area to check out campgrounds and choose spots. Nothing worse than making reservations, driving 6 hrs, only to arrive finding the site isn't very good. Watching videos such as yours is a HUGE help! :-)
Great camera work on this one! I love that new in-vehicle setup you're using! Park looks nice, too!
Glad you like it! It was a learning curve, for sure!
We have not made it up there yet! Love the water sites, so need to try to get up there soon.- we are in a conversion van, so should be able to make it into the sites and still see the view. Thanks again for the informative video.
Oh, yeah - you shouldn't have any trouble maneuvering into any site there in a van. Don't be put off by our little bit of grumbling - it's worth checking out! Thanks for watching!
@@LiveNLearnRV - not grumbling, just sharing the facts:) I appreciated it.
It's so great to see you two back out again! I know life can get in the way sometimes, but seeing your videos is always worth the wait!
Thank you so much! No matter how much we get out, it's never enough!
Been there several times. The “T” sites are awful, especially with all the trees. Makes it very difficult to back into the site. And, you’re right - the ones to the left of the T face away from the lake.
Right!?!? I wish we had video of the 5th-wheel we saw jacking itself into one of those left-side-of-the-T sites! I salute anybody who can pull that off!
Motorhome.
Sites are strange… I have to ask what kind of fancy camera you got setup in the truck
It's a Vantrue N4 3-camera dashcam. It generates some decent footage (for a dashcam) forward/in-cabin/rearward, but it maxes out at 1080p/30fps. I usually shoot 2.7k/60fps, but I'm willing to sacrifice the slight drop in image quality for the ease of getting those three angles now.
I still do everything in 1080… I did 4K a couple times but the files were so big… lol.
@@GimpyCamper Yeah, I always render out in 1080, anyway. 2.7k files aren't anywhere near as large as 4k files, and that little bit of extra resolution helps me in close-ups sometimes.