The Florida manatee, a gentle creature nicknamed “sea cow” for its slow pace and constant grazing, calls more than just Florida’s waters home.
Manatees spend a good portion of the year in South Carolina waters while migrating north and enjoying aquatic vegetation during the summer, and you might be lucky enough to see one near the Grand Strand.
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources asks residents and visitors to report manatee sightings to track their migration patterns. They are most commonly seen in tidal creeks and estuaries, but have been spotted from the shore swimming in the ocean and in freshwater rivers. A manatee was observed swimming in the Waccamaw River near the Conway marina in June…