Wild and Windswept: The Ultimate Guide to the Sea Islands
Image zoom St. Phillips Island, South Carolina It's a bit like a fragile family heirloom passed down with care and love. What better way to describe South Carolina's remarkable St. Phillips Island? Jigsaw-puzzled among its marshy sea-isle sisters southeast of Beaufort and just northeast of Hilton Head, St. Phillips lay largely undisturbed—other than by temporary Native American habitation, colonial oversight by the Spanish, and well-heeled sportsmen who came here for pig hunts—until famed media mogul Ted Turner bought the island for $2.4 million in 1979. St. Phillips e...