Daufuskie Island is a residential sea island between Savannah, Georgia and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It has a full-time population of around 300 and is home to two resorts. Nickname The Creative Coast or The Hostess City Location Government County Chatham Mayor Otis S. Johnson Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 202. ... A view of the beach on the islands Port Royal plantation. ...

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 Gullah are an African American population of African slave ancestry. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Pat Conroy (born October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a New York Times bestselling author who has written such acclaimed works as The Lords of Discipline, Beach Music, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide, The Boo, My Losing Season, and His first book, The... The Water Is Wide is a 1972 nonfiction book by Pat Conroy based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book. ...

The island is now split into five parts. To the northeast is the Haig Point Golf Club, an exclusive, member owned residential club with a small number of year round residents and a fair number of members who maintain vacation homes there. Membership at the Haig Point is quite expensive. South of this is the Daufuskie Island Club, a private vacation club also centered on golf and tennis, which also offers a private residential component. Although membership at the Daufuskie Island Club is also quite expensive, members of the public can vacation at this club. 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 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.

The Haig Point club has its own private ferry service. The Daufuskie Island Club also 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. The resort also provides ferry services to the handful of high school age children on the island to school on Hilton Head. 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 unincorporated portion of the island. Personal vehicles are not allowed on the Melrose, Bloody Point, and Haig Point properties.

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