Today on GoNOMAD, veteran travel writer Ginger Warder takes a short trip to a fascinating part of South Carolina, The Santee Cooper region. She stayed in some octagonal-shaped cabins, met a friendly armadillo, and then cast her line with one of the only female fishing charter captains, nicknamed Mouse, to fish for catfish sleeping beneath the murky depths. Ginger recalls the local history with the tale of the famous Swamp Fox who was one of the first guerrilla fighters of the Revolutionary War, who captured a British fort with his clever local militia. Read the story <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/200999-santee-cooper-country-south-carolina">

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