--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-08-09T03:00:42' draft: false title: With the heavens for a --- _With the heavens for a canvas, from zenith to the southwest horizon, the greatest of Artists, Nature, had painted another glorious masterpiece, the motif being continuous areas of variable size and contour, in a soft medium tone of ultramarine or lapis lazuli blue, each framed in clouds of brilliant silver, copper and gold, while the[restless waters of Beaufort](http://beaufort-sc.com/CGSCGA/) Bay were mirrored in exquisite pastel shades. On a pale pearl azure background, Luna, the Queen of Night, appears in luminous splendor, wearing, in honor of the Harvest Month, a royal robe of turquoise blue beneath a shimmering gossamer veil of silvery grey. The radiant picture now in its entirety presents an entrancing ensemble of color and beauty, suggesting in its enchantment an approach to the celestial Gates of Paradise and adds another glory to the Carolina Coast._  \-- Gilbert Augustus Selby, 1934 It's time for another getaway. Two days here will do the trick, I think, especially since there's [moonlight kayaking](http://www.travelsc.com/cgi-bin/parks/ParkEventDetail.cfm?ID=1722) involved, under the full moon. The coast's most romantic community, indeed!