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In this segment we see the Cabbage Palmetto, and the Glasswort or “Sea Pickle.”
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Rudy Mancke Collection
Rudy Mancke, who passed away on Nov. 7 at the age of 78, became a beloved figure in South Carolina and beyond through his groundbreaking work as the host of the nationally distributed television show NatureScene and SC Public Radio’s NatureNotes. NatureScene, co-created with Beryl Dakers premiered in 1978 and continued for an impressive 25 years, gaining national recognition for its simple and innovative approach to exploring the natural world.
Within this Collection
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Victoria Bluff gets its name due to the sharp drop down to the shoreline, where at high tide, the Colleton River slowly continues to erode away the edge. Evidence of life is found within the bluffs...
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke shows the different parts of the horseshoe crab.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke removes the spins of the sea urchin and explains what a test is.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke examines part of a brown pelican's skeleton.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke tells us about the moon snail.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke looks at the skull of the loggerhead sea turtle.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explores the many different kinds of shells.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explains the process of the horseshoe crab shedding its skin.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explains what a fossilized bivalve is and how it came to be.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke tells us about the lettered olive shell.
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On this stop the hosts see more butterfly pea flowers. Watch the video to find out what animal tracks were seen. Learn about the structure of a turtle's shell.
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This stop is considered floodplain. The hosts makes note of how the river flowed into this area carrying sand and also the height of the water. Native Americans used places like the Lynches river to...
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The hosts come across some very large mosquitoes. Mosquitoes love standing water. It's the female mosquito that takes blood from us. There are flowers that grow along this stop like sweetgum, red...
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The host visit an artesian well at this stop. There are many primitive plants that thrive near this source of water. Learn about muscadines and how they're formed. On this last stop the host see a...
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Lee State Park is located in Lee County, around the Lynches River. Some of the items found along this stop include a butterfly pea flower, the eastern tailed blue butterfly and a tail feather of the...
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Edge of the Bay - The edge of the bay has red bay growing, along with groups of Trumpet Pitcher Plants.
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Here we have a view of Pond Pine, Sweet Bay, Magnolias and Pepper Bush. We also get a look at the Oak Toad.
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Here we see Running Oak and Sweet Pitcher Plants. Also view a dragonfly and a Cottonmouth snake
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We find dwarf azaleas in this sweet smelling area. We also see the Blackjack Oak, Sundew, the grass stage of the Long Leaf Pine, and Fleabane all along the road.
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We take a look at the closing mechanism on the Venus fly trap leaf.
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Black saddlebags are species of dragonflies
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This red-headed woodpecker is strikingly colored with its entire head red.
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