Movie on the Green

Holidays in the Lowcountry bring plenty of activities to be enjoyed by the family. If you haven’t tried a “Movie on the Green” in Palmetto Bluff, you’ll have your chance on Saturday, December 14^th 2013. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the season! “A Christmas Story” will be playing on the big screen under the stars. Pack your chairs, blankets, family and friends; the gates open at 4:30 p.m. to mix and mingle with Santa. Hot toddies and movie snacks will be provided and the movie begins at 6:00 p.m.

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Babysitting Options on the Island

You are on Hilton Head Island for a family vacation because, well, you want to spend time with family. However, it is okay if you feel like one night you might want to sneak out with your significant other and enjoy some quiet, romantic, one-on-one time. Maybe enjoy a long dinner at one our fabulous restaurants or catch a movie you've been excited to see. If you are in need of someone to watch your kiddos, here are a few options:

Guardian Angels Sitting Service : This bonded, licensed, and insured company offers babysitting in the Hilton Head Area. You will need to complete an application and then you can get a referral for a babysitter in their network. Call 877-470-4277 for more information.

Hilton Head Nannies: Nannies can come directly to your hotel room or vacation rental and care for infants and children.

The Sandbox: Once a month during the off season and twice a week during the summer months, the Sandbox Interactive Children's Museum hosts Parents Night Out, Kids Night In. Kids ages 3-9 years old enjoy a pizza dinner, drink and dessert, as well as three hours of playing among the fun exhibits and activity areas. Each child will also take home a fun craft. Call 843-842-7645 for more information.

Island Rec Center: Once a month the Island Rec offers a Kids Night Out program. Drop the kids off from 6-10 p.m. and they will be fed pizza for dinner and entertained with activities, movies, games, arts & crafts. Pre-registration is required. Call 843-681-7273 for more information.

So get out there and enjoy a few hours of adult fun. The kids will have plenty to keep them occupied. Cheers!

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Family Fun on Hilton Head Island

Family Fun on Hilton Head Island

Hilton Head Island is an ideal place to bring the kids for a fun-filled family vacation. Here is the first in a series of blogs that will help you embrace all that the island has to offer:

You are on Hilton Head Island for a week of fun, sun, and family time. You are in luck, there are so many wonderful things to do on Hilton Head Island, you may want to stay for an extra week; or you could just move here. The most obviously place to start your week of fun is the...

...BEACH! We are on an island, so the beach literally surrounds us. The great thing about Hilton Head's beaches is that there are very few waves here. When it's low tide, there are often tidal pools that form along the beach, which are great for the little kids to play in because they are warm and shallow. Another great thing is that the beaches are flat and wide so if the kids run around, you can easily keep an eye on them and you can even ride your bikes on them.

And although you will hear this a lot, people say it for a reason: be sure to bring a lot of sunscreen and apply often because nothing ruins a family vacation like a sunburn on the first day out. A lot of areas of the beach are set up with umbrellas and chairs that you can rent by the week or by the day to give you some respite from the sun. If you prefer to buy your own, almost every grocery store and drug store carries beach chairs, sunscreen, portable cabanas, towels, flip flops, and beach toys. You can get fully equipped in a flash.

Another fun option is the Coligny Water Park. Located on the south end of the island on Coligny Circle, this boardwalk fun stop has a circle with spouting water fountains to keep the kids cool and laughing. There are benches around it for parents to take a load off. You will need it because your kids will not want to leave this area for a while.

There are a lot of fun swimming pools on the island, but we think that the Barony Beach Club is the best. Located mid island next to the Westin Resort, this pool has an awesome water slide that will keep the kids busy all day. Keep in mind, however that children under 42” will not be allowed on the slide so plan accordingly to prevent tears from your little ones.

Water sports are a fun way to spend the day. With 8 marinas on the Island, you are certainly close enough to one. Try jet skiing, kayaking, motor boating, parasailing, or paddleboarding. Or maybe you'd like to charter a fishing boat, sailboat, or go on a dolphin watching cruise. The possibilities are endless.

So go out there and have some F-U-N!! And on Hilton Head Island, that is not too difficult.

March is the Beginning of The Social Season on Hilton Head!

It is March 1st and when you look at the calendar of things to do on Hilton Head Island you often have to take a breath to try and fit it all in. 

On the opening weekend of the month we have a few remaining events that will end the Gullah Celebration nicely. A big annual event takes place 3/4 - 3/9 with the 18th Annual Hilton Head International Young Artist Piano Competition. If you love classical music and talent that belies their young age, then this is something for you!

Do you like food and wine? Of course you do, who doesn't, well then enjoy and take part in the 28th annual Hilton Head Wine & Food Festival. Running from 3/4 - 3/9 it includes Great Chef of the South Dinners at area restaurants, a Grand Tasting & Silent Auction at the Sea Pines Country Club and ends with one of the largest outdoor wine tasting on the east coast at what Islanders call WineFest but is technically called Wine & Food Festival. This takes place on Saturday 3/9 at the Coastal Discovery Museum grounds of Honey Horn.

There are plays to be seen from Bye Bye Birdie presented by Main Street Youth Theatre to the recent Tony Award winning play Venus in Fur at The South Carolina Repertory Company and even High Musical 2 put on by Hilton Head Christian Academy. 

One event that gets the whole community together is the Hilton Head St. Patrick's Day Parade. Going strong for 30 years, this year we actually get to have it on the Day. So wear some green and pull up a chair anywhere on the east side of Pope Avenue between the Coligny Circle to Office Park Road. It takes place rain or shine starting at 3PM but head that way by 1:30 as the crowds are huge!

To close out the month we have the two day event of WingFest held at Shelter Cove Community Park. PreWing festivities take place Friday night 3/22 and then the main event is Saturday from 11- 6PM . 

See we told you there is lots going on and this is just a taste to get the details link here at Hilton Head Islander March Calendar of Events!

Hilton Head Island’s Christmas 2011

It is the last day of November and the decorations for the coming Holiday are all over Hilton Head Island. For the first time in over 20 years we are going to have to forgo the Dove Street tradition and perhaps find some new ones. If you live on Hilton Head or will be visiting between now and the first of the year here are some places/events and things you might want to see and do

Forgive the quality of the pictures as I never realized how difficult it is to use a point and shoot camera with Christmas lights.

Last year Harbour Town decided to up the ante on their decorations and made it a must see place for a decorated stroll. It is also a place to bring an unwrapped toy, canned good or monetary donation for Deep Well.

While you are in Sea Pines you might also want to drive by South Beach Village (you know, where the Salty Dog is) and check out their Christmas Village and their thousands of twinkling lights and falling snow. And another place that will be interesting is Pineland Station off Hwy 278 where Bluffton artist Richard Coyne has designed a multi-sensory 200 foot winter wonderland with trains, trolley, towns and tunes (they suggest you bring an unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots.)

One of my personal favorites is the Fire Station on 278 right next to the First Presbyterian Church near the entrance of Port Royal Plantation. A couple of years ago the Island fire stations were adopted by civic groups and decorated and voted on with this fire house being the most impressive and the only one still decorated to this extent. What is great is you get to drive around the whole station and each year something new seems to be added.

As always there are some personal homes that go out of their way to be in the holiday spirit and in a future blog I will center on those with hopefully more stable images! Enjoy the lights of Hilton Head and let us know places we shouldn’t miss.

BOO – It’s Halloween on Hilton Head!

Trying to figure out a way to scare up a good time this Halloween? Well whether you are 1 or 101 and you like to put on a costume and go out and have good time there are plenty of chances to do just that, this Halloween.

The following are some Halloween events being hosted on Hilton Head Island:

Thursday 10/27/11 from 5-8PM there is Halloween at Coligny Plaza. This fun happening is more for kids and your furry family members as activities include trick-or-treating at the shops, a free photo booth, ghost stories by Yostie, Giant Shark Slide and more. The Pet Costume Contest at Tail-Waggers starts at 5:00PM with the Family Costume Contest at 5:30PM and Hot Dog Harbour Hot Dog Eating Contest at 6:30PM.

Friday 10/28/2011 from 4-8PM there the Pumpkin Patch at Shelter Cove Community Park. Benefiting the Island Rec Center there is a $10 Admission for ages 2-18, parent and children under 2 get in free and food is sold separately. Enjoy a petting zoo, blow up rides, haunted hay ride, costume contest, and much more in a family friendly environment.

Friday & Saturday 10/28–29/2011 from 7:30-8:30PM and Saturday & Sunday 10/29-30/2011 from 1:30-2:15PM go on a Haunted Wagon Ride at the Sea Pines Forest Preserve take the kiddies on a Ride and hear some ghost stories. Reservations required $15 per adult and $10 per child.

Sunday 10/30/2011 from 3:30-5PM enjoy Halloween on the Harbour. Trick or treating around Harbour Town along with pumpkin decorating, costume contest and more. Fun for all ages and free.

For the adults, here are just a few of the costume contests on Hilton Head.
Friday 10/28 - Daniels Restaurant and Lounge at Beach Market
Saturday 10/29 - Wild Wings on Pope Ave. or The X/O Lounge at the Hilton
Monday 10/31 - The Smokehouse on Palmetto Bay

On Hilton Head is everbody really from Ohio?

Recently on our Facebook.com/HiltonHeadIslandSC page we posed an interesting question to our over 11,600 fans “Everyone makes jokes that all our visitors are from Ohio so let’s figure out if that is true! Whether you visit or live here, post whhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifere you are from?” And the completely unscientific results came rolling in with – you guessed it – OHIO as the winner.


Of the 186 votes (people mentioned multiple places) here are the numbers
1 OH – 54
2 SC – 13
3 NC – 12
4 GA, KY, TN – 11
5 NY – 8
6 IL, MI, NJ, PA – 5
7 AL, CT, TX, VA – 4
8 FL, IN, MO, WV – 3
9 AR, AZ, CA, IA, MA WI – 2
10 DE, MD, MN, MS, MT, Germany, Costa Rica - 1

What was fun for us was reading the responses and while some just posted their state others were very proud of where they are from and how much they love Hilton Head too! Leave a comment and tell us where you are from too!