South California

This is my first postcard from this area – South California. Myrtle Beach is a coastal resort city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States.

Myrtle Beach is situated largely on a barrier island in Long Bay between the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the East. However, building west of the waterway is rapidly increasing and the city of Myrtle Beach is expanding further west.

Land east of the waterway is on a slightly elevated sandbar or dune area. West of the waterway the land is mostly pine forest with a normal high water table and is more dense than the sandbar to the east, in which developers dredge ponds and use the soil to create elevated areas for better drainage around buildings and structures.

The sender of this card wrote that her family are going there every summer for vacation. I probably know why – the place looks great J. 


p.s. I found this small destroyed on postcard when I took out from mailbox...:(