A bight is a wide, shallow, gentle bend or curve in a coastline the creates an open, often large bay. Examples include the Australian Bight, the Southern California Bight, South Atlantic Bight, and the Georgia Bight.
The Carolina Bight is the area that includes the Calibogue Sound, the Port Royal Sound, and the Beaufort, Chechessee, Colleton, May, Pocataligo, Tulifiny and Whale Branch rivers. The ecosystem is unique in ways we are only now coming to understand.
We are part of the “Lowcountry” but that name is too broad to recognize the importance of the Carolina Bight and why different regulations and behavior are essential to protect this ecosystem. The Carolina Bight is not like the freshwater system of the ACE Basin; not like busy Port of Charleston or the rivers that flow through the Port…