Daufuskie Island South Carolina

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Daufuskie Island SC s a residential sea island between Savannah, Georgia and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It has a full-time population of around 429 and is home to two resorts.

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The island's recorded history traces back to Pre Revolutionary War times. It was the site of a skirmish called the "Daufuskie Fight" during the Yamasee War of 1715-1717. The island was home to a sizable population of Gullah inhabitants from the end of the Civil War until very recently. Gullah are the descendants of freed slaves. The 1972 Pat Conroy book The Water is Wide was set on Daufuskie, fictionalized as "Yamacraw Island." The book recounts Mr. Conroy's experiences teaching on the island in the 1960's, when the Gullah lifestyle of living off the crabs and oysters in the Calibogue Sound was threatened by industrial waste.

The island is now split into five parts.

Map of Daufuskie Island.To the northeast is the Haig Point Club[1], a private, member owned residential club with a small number of year round residents and a fair number of members who maintain vacation homes there.

South of this is the Daufuskie Resort and Breathe Spa. Formerly a private vacation club with an emphasis on golf and tennis, and offering a private residential component, this is now a publicly accessible resort. Further south on the eastern side of the island is Oak Ridge, a small oceanfront community followed by Bloody Point, a private residential community with amenities that are an accessible part of the Daufuskie Island Resort and Breathe Spa.

The western part of the island is unincorporated land, with several dozen residents living in a variety of accommodations, from trailers to beautiful waterfront homes with private docks. This section of the island is often referred to as the Historic District. Visitors can take a tour around this historic portion of the island, with boat transportation available from nearby Hilton Head Island, Bluffton or Savannah on the mainland. Highlights include the site of the Bloody Point Lighthouse, the school where Pat Conroy taught, and the home workshops of local artisans.

A recent census in 2007 by the local Daufuskie Island Fire and Rescue Department counted 429 full time residents living full time on the entire island.

Dolphins gliding in front of the Haig Point private ferry. The Haig Point Club has its own private ferry service. The Daufuskie Island Club runs its own ferry service, which is also contracted by the county to provide public ferry services between Hilton Head (Salty Fare Emabarkation Center) and the Melrose Landing on Daufuskie. Residents of the clubs, as well as some of the other residents on the island, use golf carts and bicycles to travel around the island, although there are a handful of cars and trucks on the island.

Daufuskie Island is also the home to the International Junior Golf Academy since 2004.

There are two historic lighthouses on Daufuskie Island. The Bloody Point Lighthouse built in 1883 and the Haig Point Lighthouse built in 1873.

The Daufuskie Island Conservancy is one of several local organizations charged with preserving the ecosystem, wildlife and quality of life on Daufuskie Island. Details of these groups and their meetings can be found in the Front Porch newspaper.

The island has three golf courses, the Bloody Point Course designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, the Melrose Golf Course designed by Jack Nicklaus and the 20 hole Haig Point Signature Course plus the 9 hole Haig Point Osprey Course designed by Rees Jones.

The twenty hole Haig Point Golf Course is designed to be played as two separate 18 hole courses, one easy, one difficult with two extra "easy" par threes and many holes have two sets of tees. It is a unique and ingenous design that allows every level of player to enjoy the Signature Course. Ten of the twenty holes have spectacular marsh, sound and ocean views.