Overview
Area name
Port Royal PlantationArea Location
Mid-Island. Left off Hwy 278, the same exit for the Westin Hotel.Area Map
Access
Access is restricted to residents and their guests as this is gated residential community.
Facilities
No Information Available.
Background
- The lagoons along the golf course fairways are good habitat for herons and egrets.
- A “Do Not Disturb” nesting area is roped off for the Least Tern.
- An arboretum in the Plantation is a botanist’s delight and attracts both resident and migrating passerines.
- Resident passerines, particularly Eastern Bluebirds, are common on the golf courses.
- The same shorebirds mentioned for Fish Haul Creek Park sometimes congregate high on the beaches near high tide on the Port Royal Plantation side of the creek (particularly Piping Plover).
- In Port Royal you may also visit the remnants of Fort Walker (built during the Civil War). The plantation is the location of one of the only two steam canons ever in American service, put in place at the time of the Spanish American War but fired only as a test.
Key Birds
Resident
Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, White Ibis, Eastern Bluebird.
Summer
Cattle Egret, Least Tern.