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A REMOTE ISLAND OFF THE COAST of South Carolina once was home to a herd of goats and a man and his wife, two people who, apparently tired, afraid or simply fed


BY BRIAN SHERMAN


up with modern civilization, chose to live a life devoid of electricity, run- ning water, traffic, regular paychecks and everything else that was making life more complicated and infinitely noisier for their neighbors on the mainland.


Tough it is only a few hundred


yards from the Isle of Palms, a popu- lar beach community just northeast of Charleston, Goat Island remains a remote outpost surrounded by water, living proof that there still are places along the East Coast of the United States where you can close your eyes and at least pretend that an ocean separates you and the rest of the world. Tere are no roads to Goat Island;


you can reach it only by sea or air, a trait it shares with several other islands along the Carolina coast. Tey range from Daufuskie Island at the


southern tip of Beaufort County in South Carolina to Ocracoke Island, well off the coast of central North Carolina, and each offers its own unique opportunities for fun and relaxation. But as diverse as these five islands are, they also are similar in one important aspect. Surrounded by water, they engulf their residents and visitors in an aura of serenity, a feeling of tranquility unavailable on islands connected to the rest of the world by magnificent bridges that soar to the sky or even by one-lane, wooden structures that barely rise above the swamp. It matters not how close an island is to the mainland. If you need a boat to get there, it might as well be a thousand miles away. Take, for instance, Daufuskie


Island, South Carolina. Located across the Calibogue Sound from Hilton Head Island and separated from the mainland on the west by the Intracoastal Waterway, it would be within easy driving distance of historic Savannah if driving were an option. It’s not. If you want to go


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it might as well be a thousand miles away Bald Head Island, North Carolina


anywhere from Daufuskie Island, you must ride the ferry to Hilton Head first.


With a total surface area of around eight square miles, Daufuskie’s full- time population is just above 400. Te five-mile-long island features a resort, a few residential communities, a smattering of other home sites and a large, undeveloped tract of land that is home to a wide range of plant and animal life, including the fox squir- rel and the American bald eagle. A large chuck of the island is dedicated to the game of golf. Te Bloody Point Course was designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, while the Melrose Course is a creation of Jack Nicklaus. Rees Jones built both Haig Point layouts, the Signature Course and the Osprey Course. Daufuskie Island has earned its place in history and in fiction. Te site of a battle during the Yamasee War in the early 18th century, it was the home of a large population of descendants of freed slaves for many years after the Civil War. And in 1972, Pat Conroy wrote “Te Water


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