Fripp Island Real Estate Owners Utilize Water Access
Whether you define “recreation” as a bustle of activity or simply walking on the beach and feeling the sand between your toes, Fripp Island is the place you’ll want to call home.
With a variety of rental vehicles available, Fripp Island real estate owners can paddle inlets one day and explore the island by bike or motorcycle the next. This is most convenient for the buyer of second homes, as the service alleviates transporting or storing personal recreational equipment. For the landlubber, the Fripp Island Marina has golf carts, bicycles and Mopeds available by the hour, day or week. Water sport enthusiasts enjoy renting 17’ or 21’ Carolina Skiffs or tandem kayaks, canoes and all the necessary gear. Guided pontoon cruises and two-hour dolphin cruises can be scheduled through the marina.
Offshore fishing with a charter guide can yield an abundant catch of snapper, sailfish, mahi-mahi, barracuda and other Gulf Stream favorites. Inshore is the home to flounder, tarpon, grouper and more. Practice makes perfect, and skills can be tested during a number of fishing tournaments held in the summer and fall on Fripp Island.
Birders enjoy the very active Fripp Island Audubon Club, a branch of the National Audubon Society. Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed Hawks, Osprey, White Ibis and Woodstorks are among more than 175 species of birds that have been spotted by members of the club who document and study them as they add to the beauty of life on Fripp Island.
Fripp Island real estate owners are no strangers to rolling up their pant legs and wading in the surrounding waters to catch Atlantic Blue Crabs, a favorite pastime of Fripp Islanders. Families often gather to watch the porpoises swimming in area inlets, and adults and children have the opportunity to work with the Fripp Island turtle nesting protection program that assists Loggerhead Turtles who come to nest along the 3.5 miles of Fripp beaches.
Fripp Island Golf
Fripp Island is home to two impressive golf courses. Ocean Creek course holds the distinction as “one of the top 10 new courses you can play” by Golf Magazine and Golf Digest gave the course a 4.5 Star rating. Ocean Creek is the first Davis Love III signature golf course and is located on the south end of Fripp island. As a Par 71, the 6510-yard course is picturesque enough to have been the site of the filming of Forrest Gump and Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book.
Augusta National designer and consultant George Cobb designed the beautiful Ocean Point Golf Links, which holds a 4 Star rating with Golf Digest. Ocean Point is a Par 73, 6590-yard course. Eleven of the holes are oceanview, and Fripp Island real estate owners know that gauging Fripp Island’s ocean breeze is just as important as lining up the next shot.
Fripp Island Racquet Club
Fripp Island’s Racquet Club features eight clay and two hard tennis courts with year-round play. Several courses are lighted for evening play. Tournaments and instructional programs with private or semi-private lessons add to the wide range of activities available to owners of Fripp Island real estate.
Fripp Island Golf and Beach Resort
The oceanfront Fripp Island Golf and Beach Resort features several pools, walking and bike paths, basketball and volleyball courts and a children’s playground. //
