People from all over come to visit Botany Bay Plantation and enjoy time in this wonderful unspoiled coastal wilderness. Botany Bay is a 4687-acre wildlife and heritage preserve located at the northeast corner of Edisto Island, within the boundary of the ACE Basin. You can spend many hours hiking its trails, strolling the beach, or enjoying the driving tour.
Botany Bay Plantation was formed from the merger of the Colonial-era Sea Cloud Plantation and Bleak Hall Plantation in the 1930's. It was later transferred to the state as a wildlife preserve. Botany Bay Plantation includes a number of registered historic sites, the prehistoric Fig Island shell rings, and a set of three surviving 1980's outbuildings from Bleak Hall Plantation. The Bleak Hall and Sea Cloud plantations were once part of the Townsend family, but were combined to form Botany Bay Plantation when the land changed ownerships.