An Island Called Daufuskie

To celebrate my 30th birthday coming up on the 11th Austin set up a weekend on Daufuskie with a group of our friends. He rented a beautiful huge house on the 5th hole of the only golf course still functioning. A little history on Daufuskie.....it is an island that was secluded from modern life until the past 20 or 30 years. If you are into reading I would recommend Pat Conroy's “The River is Wide.” He wrote the book about his experiences on Daufuskie as the local school teacher in the 70's, where the children on the island didn't even know they lived in the United States of America. This island is between the main land of South Carolina and Hilton Head Island, but since it has no bridge it remains isolated. In the 80's an amazing resort was built right on the beach, with multiples golf courses, a pool center, tennis courts, restaurant and hotel and conference center. The houses on the golf courses are privately own so they are still there, but just over a year ago the resort went bankrupt and shutdown everything but one golf course. It is all still there and functional, just NO ONE around. The title of this post, "An Island Called Daufuskie" is also a book about the island, but I haven't read that book.
So back to this past weekend...Austin rented a house on the 5th hole just up from the beach and pool area and we spent the weekend riding around the island on golf carts going to one of the 2 local establishments for food, swimming and playing football on the beach, playing board games, sitting around a camp fire with the locals at night, and watching sunrises and sunsets over the water. It was a perfect weekend.

It is getting hard to add comments to each picture so I'll just let you enjoy the pictures.






















This is what a horse shoe crap looks like if anyone is interested.






















Brent, Austin and I took Friday off and went on the morning Ferry, where the rest of the group met up with us that evening.