Even the view out over the campground was kinda nice:
We had a private catch and release lake (no license required), the a-frame lodge office/game room/store/laundry room and the big blue thing is a heated indoor pool which we never took advantage of. The "indoor" pool was really just an outdoor pool with a blue tent over top of it. Besides, we were here to hunt and not lay around in some campground.
After unpacking our stuff, we headed out to the Great Pee Dee Heritage Preserve Wildlife Management Area just about 20 minutes away. I was pleasantly surprised to find that we could actually drive on the preserve on designated roads. I only thought that "official" vehicles used by the conservation officers and managers were authorized to do so! It was a huge help as access would have been difficult otherwise, if not impossible except on long foothikes 3 miles into the hunting area!
After signing in, we drove through the gate and into the area itself, mainly getting a feel for where to park, and cover types near the subjective "X's" I'd placed on the map through table-top scouting. It appeared that there were basically no topographic features to channel game movements. Rather the vegetative features seemed to take the form of three types: pine forest, swamps, and hardwood mixes. Seeing where a few of the locals had parked, we decided to go take a look at an area to the north of our designated parking spot the next day.
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