Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Day 4

Garmin hosted a dock 'play-aboard-my-aft deck' play date with his new buddy, Dylan!

Dylan wants a biscuit!

Who knew?!

The Intra-coastal waterway was originally built in order to be used as a secret passageway during WWII.

Myrtle Beach’s Kings Highway was an Indian trail long before European settlers arrived in the New World.  As the colonies grew, that Indian trail became the main route between north states and southern cities.

George Washington toured the area in 1791, while he was president.

Myrtle Beach’s first hotel was the Seaside Inn, built in 1901 at a cost of $3,813 for materials and labor. At first, the hotel had no plumbing or electricity and you could get three meals and an overnight stay for just $2.

There are 295.79 miles of streets inside the Myrtle Beach city limits.  That’s 1,561,782.40 linear feet, if you’re counting.

The city of Myrtle Beach has an ordinance that requires you to pre-pay for gasoline.

It is illegal for a driver to leave the engine running in an unattended vehicle or to leave the key in the ignition when leaving a vehicle unoccupied.

The city’s official reptile is the Loggerhead Sea turtle.

The number of golf courses along the Grand Strand now totals around 120.

Myrtle Beach is the birth place of Wheel of Fortune hostess, Vanna White.

Myrtle Beach received its name after the Sweet Myrtle (Crepe Myrtle) tree native to the area.

The dance called, 'The Shag" was thought to have originated on Ocean Drive in the 40's. It began as an attempt to do the Jitterbug but the Jitterbuggers had drank too much so the slowed-down version of this became known as "The Shag".

Oceanfront lots in Myrtle Beach were $25 in 1905. If you built a property for at least $500 you received a second lot for free.

The first people to arrive in Myrtle Beach were a group of Spaniards from Hispaniola in 1526 who established the first European settlement 30 miles south of the beach town called San Miguel de Cauldape; however it was abandoned one year later when the settlers returned to their homeland.

Myrtle Beach’s population is approximately 30,000 during the winter months and 350,000 during the summer.

Boiled peanuts are the official state snack food offered roadside May through November. 

There are over 1,400 restaurants in the area.