Get off I-26 at Chapin. Take a right on St Peter's Church Rd until you get to Dreher Island Rd. You will pass country homes with many Tupelo trees in full astonishing bloom. You are still in Lexington County until you pass Buckaroo's Bar on your left and cross the Adam's Camp bridge.
Now you are in Newberry County. Keep going straight on a point of land that stretches into Lake Murray. At 11:00 am, there is a soft mist over the lake. Near the shore, it is green, covered in pollen, then clear and blue, then silver. The Visitor's Center is a tackle shop on the left. Keep going through the park, take a left onto Red Maple (on the right is Yellow Poplar). You will see a picnic shelter and rest rooms but immediately on the right is a kiosk accouncing the 2.1 mile trail. The way is covered in pine needles, leaves and fallen trees from the winter. Everywhere there are the dropped blossoms of yellow jasmine. Once I lost the trail and found the secret lunch place of a raccoon on the edge of the water with a big mound of fresh water clam shells. There is green green moss along the banks of the lake. There is the sound of woodpeckers drumming, small birds twittering, small water creatures plopping into the lake. A huge black and white water bird flies up and across the water. Again I find the trail. My car is parked under a big muscadine vine where there will be berries in the fall.
I leave the park under an azule sky full of cherry blossom clouds with the Classic Oldies radio station WRBK out of Chester playing.
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