Pirate's Island Adventure Golf, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

We played a few rounds of minigolf on our vacation. We picked, among a good variety of locations, the Pirate's Island Adventure Golf course. It was nearby our accommodations and had the fun pirate theme. The "island" has two eighteen-hole courses, The Blackbeard Original Adventure and Captain Kidd's Challenge. I took the kids in the early afternoon (mom had a work conference call) and we decided on the Blackbeard course. The guy at the counter said we could come back later and play the other course for a substantial discount, but only that day. We took it under advisement and headed out.

Two serious athletes

The course had plenty of pirate themed decorations and the bluest water we'd ever seen. My daughter made some comments, then I noticed that the water tower below had some skeletons in it. Maybe that was making the water blue?

Pirate theme ahoy!

She also spotted a lizard on one of the rope railways. Maybe he is a baby alligator?

A bit camera-shy

Long-legged micro-gator?

The course has some informational signs along the way, though some seem more geared toward entertainment than historical information. The sign below struck us as semi-accurate.

We weren't sure "fell in love" counts as respectful behavior

A pirate hangout

The course has speakers hidden away. Unfortunately, the song set was stuck on the same song for a while, some shanty about "Cal-i-forn-i-a" and drinking. By the fifteenth hole, it changed.

At the end, we turned in our clubs and the lady asked if we had any holes in one. I had one on the first hole (though none afterward) and my kids had perfect shots on holes 7 and 16. None of the three were the special "win a free game" holes but we did get a free-game coin for the winner of our round.

We came back with mom later, using the coin for her game and the discount for the rest of us. We played the other course, Captain Kidd's Challenge, which was indeed more challenging (no holes-in-one here). We started the course by voting on something I can't remember. 

Maybe we were taking a pirate's oath?

The course was more challenging but more fun with mom along.

Maybe that guy is Capt. Kidd?

We spotted more life-sized though less lively alligators on this course.

Blending in to murky waters--where's blue water when you need it?

One of the recurring obstacles on Kidd's course was piles of small black balls stacked in a pyramid. One of the children insisted that it was a pile of scat. I am pretty sure they were stacks of cannon balls, not excrement. I used a black golf ball, so I felt some solidarity with the maligned obstacles.

What's that on the course?!?

Our scorecards