They call it the best location in Sea Pines – halfway from Harbour Town to South Beach. Yet the site is a little secretive.

Sea Pines golf set the direction and tone for all that followed – something like 32 courses in all today. The three courses within the Sea Pines gates are among the finest examples, and they set the bar high.

Pretty soon we won’t be looking for excuses to celebrate. The holiday season sparkles and delights, but somewhere between November and January it can begin to seem a little relentless.

Sea Pines restaurants are some of the very best you could wish for, in every style and category. From seafood to pizza, it's all right here.

Strictly speaking, peruse means to read with thoroughness and care. Strangely, it also means to scan or browse casually.

The Shops at Sea Pines Center enfold a kind of oasis in their midst. The plaza there reminds some of southern Spain because of the tawny color of the background and the shade of the palms.

Our neighbors are mostly people who could have chosen to live anywhere. Matter of fact, a lot of them have been everywhere, and even with that, they decided on Hilton Head Island.

What indeed makes the experience of Sea Pines and Hilton Head Island so extraordinary that people who could live anywhere choose to live here?

The secret to making family gatherings fun is to have something on the agenda that will appeal to each of the interests and avocations of your party, plus a thing or two that appeals to them all together.

With everything to be discovered at The Shops at Sea Pines Center, the first thing people told us was about how people go there to find out what’s going on.