Ocean Lakes

Deadline approaching! We want your photos for our 2017 Ocean Lakes calendar! March 2016 calendar photo submitted by Ida Marcum of Lexington, KY You have roughly two weeks left – deadline is 5 p.m. Sept. 7 - to send us your best, high-resolution photo taken in Ocean Lakes Family Campground that embodies what Ocean Lakes is all about – “Creating family memories that last a lifetime.”  Think photos taken in Ocean Lakes of nature, events or activities, family fun or pets. But don’t just send us that generic family vacation photo that could be taken anywhere. Photos also must be high-resolution; they cannot be social media images taken for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter because those are too small for our cool, print calendar.  Your digital photo MUST be 350 dpi with a minimum overall image size of 9"x12" for print. You also must sign a consent form giving us permission to publish your photo. Get that form and read all the rules here  (s...

A sea turtle nest relocated from the beach at Ocean Lakes earlier this summer has hatched! The nest, which has 119 eggs, was moved June 26 to a safer location at Myrtle Beach State Park, where volunteers could protect it and keep a close eye on it. Now, the turtles are emerging! Experts will do an inventory on the nest at 7:15 a.m. Sunday on the beach at the state park, near boardwalk S4.   Our Naturalist Brandy Cloos – who helped move the nest in June - will be on hand Sunday, and you can be there, too! At the least you’ll see eggshells and you MAY - no guarantee - see a live hatchling in the nest, which volunteers will guide to the ocean. You will have to pay the usual admission to get in Myrtle Beach State Park ($5 adults, $3.25 for SC seniors ages 65 and older, $3 for ages 6-15, free for ages 5 and younger). Park at Boardwalk S4, then head about 30 to 40 yards south on the beach. Look for the big crowd! If you can’t be there Sunday or just want to lea...

Ryleigh and Kiara reunited! Great news! Kiara, the beautiful cat that was lost in Ocean Lakes Family Campground June 30, has been reunited with her owners thanks to her microchip!  Kiara turned up in Florida about a week ago - more than a month after she wandered away from a campsite. Not sure how the cat ended up hundreds of miles away, but because it was implanted with a chip that contained the owner’s info, Kiara was returned to Ryleigh, who just graduated from college and lives in Rochester, N.Y. “We guess she hitched a ride under an RV at the campground,” said Katherine Bullock, Ryleigh’s mother. “She’s not telling us much about her 30-day adventure. ;-) We are just so glad that she was chipped!” Thanks to our guests and teammates who helped look for Kiara. She’s back home where she belongs! Tim and Molly We get reports of missing pets in the campground often, and our teammates always quickly jump in to help reunite pets with t...