Sunset over Skull Creek from the dock on Pinckney Island's south shore, orange sky reflected in the water

Hilton Head Island & the Lowcountry, one photo at a time

A photo guide built from a local photographer's own archive — the beaches, marshes, golf courses, and back roads of Hilton Head, Bluffton, and beyond.

Above: sunset over Skull Creek from the Pinckney Island dock — 41,000 views on Google Maps

Start with the parks & wild places

The heart of this archive is outdoors — refuge trails, a creekside park, plantation gardens, and the water between the islands. Start there; the storefronts can wait their turn.

Parks & places getting their own pages next

Jarvis Creek Park — 89 photos in the archive, 459,636 views on Google Maps: the lake loop, fishing dock on Lake Liggett, and the fitness trail.
Honey Horn — 113 photos, 350,523 views: the Coastal Discovery Museum grounds, with separate pages for the Camellia Garden and the Karen Wertheimer Butterfly Habitat.
Harbour Town & Sea Pines — the lighthouse and yacht basin at golden hour, 114,884 views around the harbour alone, plus the view across Calibogue Sound to Daufuskie.
Beaufort — 43 photos, 566,576 views around the waterfront: Waterfront Park, the Spanish Moss Trail, and The Point.
Every golf course in the archive — Moss Creek first (63 photos, 1,103,091 views, hole by hole on both courses), then Berkeley Hall (925,207 views), Hilton Head Lakes, Brays Island, Melrose on Daufuskie, and the Legends course on Parris Island. Hilton Head National already has its page.
Each page arrives as its photos are pulled from the archive — no stock, no filler.

Map of Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, and Daufuskie Island with the photo spots pinned

Where the spots are

  1. 1Daufuskie Island
  2. 2Fish Haul Beach
  3. 3Pinckney Island
  4. 4Old Town Bluffton
  5. 5The bridge to Hilton Head

Pins sit on the spots' real GPS coordinates from the photo archive. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

And when the road calls…

The archive wanders, too — Savannah's Forsyth Park fountain, Edinburgh, Orlando, and more. Those live in a small Field Trips corner of the site, separate from the hometown spots.

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Marsh & Water (20) Beaches (10) Gardens & Flowers (8) Historic (5) Golf (5) Sunrises (4) Birds & Wildlife (4)