Callawassie Island

09/09/2026

Every season runs through this door eventually: the spring meetings, the summer parties, the clubhouse lunches that ran long after a round of golf.

With fall on it's gentle way, foot traffic doesn't slow down on Callawassie Island. Our doors swing open the same way they always have and for whoever's walking up next.

That's the thing about a clubhouse and community like ours, it doesn't take a season off, it just waits for its next full house. 💗

09/08/2026

Some of the live oaks found on this island were already a century old before the first home went up around them. 🌳

These beauties can live up to 300 years and you can't miss how perfectly they adorn the Spanish moss. Without any harm to the tree, the moss just borrows a place to hang, pulling everything it needs from the air itself.

Callawassie's covered in them: over the fairways, along the lagoons, arched above driveways and porches on nearly every street. They were here before any of us, and they'll be the one constant while every other season on this island comes and goes.

09/07/2026

Today honors the work behind the ease; the greens crews out before sunrise, and all of the staff who keep every corner of this island ready before anyone asks. Their care is what makes a place like this run quietly and well, every day of the year, not just this one.

Wishing all of the laborers a restful day, and our thanks to all who make it possible for our community and our country!

09/06/2026

This is what it means to live with the land—not just near it.

Clouds roll in, grasses shift with the tide, and quiet colors bloom right where your feet stand. On Callawassie Island, nature isn’t a backdrop—it’s a rhythm we live by.

Explore the blog → to read more!

There is a certain stillness you notice first—not silence, but calm. It arrives with the soft movement of marsh grass at sunrise.

08/30/2026

What if calm wasn’t something you escaped to—but something built into everyday life?

On Callawassie Island, land, water, and thoughtful stewardship shape a way of living that feels both grounded and enduring. Explore the story behind the setting.

Read our blog: 🔗 Living Within the Landscape, https://www.callawassieisland.com/2026/01/07/a-placed-shaped/

08/23/2026

Residents of Callawassie Island are making an impact both on and off our island in the low country. Deemed as the "most giving island" in our latest blog, giving has truly been part of the Callawassie community for decades and we wouldn't have it any other way. ➡️ Read more here: https://bit.ly/3QFJTHO

08/16/2026

No one draws up a schedule for summer on Callawassie Island. It happens anyway, in increments: a camp week full of hula hoop contests and first tennis lessons, a paddle before breakfast that turns into a dolphin sighting, a round of golf hosted in thanks for the firefighters who keep us safe.

Ask anyone what summer looked like here, and you'll get a dozen different stories, none of them planned by anyone but the people living them. 🤍

Read "The Summer Nobody Had to Plan" on the blog:
🔗 https://www.callawassieisland.com/2026/08/04/you-dont-have-to-plan-it/

08/15/2026

Spotted here mid-bath, this great horned owl is a good reminder of how much wildlife shares space with residents on Callawassie.

Recognizable by their prominent ear tufts and piercing yellow eyes, great horned owls are among the most adaptable raptors in North America, equally at home in coastal marsh, mature woodland, and, as pictured, a quiet backyard. Bathing is a normal part of feather maintenance for birds, helping keep plumage clean and flight-ready for hunting.

Sightings like this are a reminder that the island's 880 acres are shared territory, home to far more than its residents alone. 🦉

📸 Photo credit: Holly Bjorkstrom

08/13/2026

Bottlenose dolphins are a familiar sight along the Colleton River, and this pair of paddlers crossed paths with one during a morning outing this summer.

The Colleton River is part of the tidal estuary system bordering Callawassie Island, where saltwater and freshwater mix with the tides, an environment that supports a wide range of marine life, dolphins included. Sightings like this are common enough here that residents rarely have to go looking for them; the water simply provides. 🐬

08/13/2026

Residents making an impact beyond Callawassie Island's gates.

After 30 years calling this island home, following careers in corporate and international finance, Kathleen and Jim Jordan recently made a multi-year commitment to the University of South Carolina Beaufort, establishing the Experiential Learning Fund to help students gain real-world experience through research, clinical placements, and internships before they even graduate.

Their gift is one story among many. Across the island, residents regularly extend their support beyond Callawassie's gates, whether through university partnerships like this one, or through organizations like Friends of Callawassie Island (FOCI).

It's simply part of how people choose to live here: invested in the community inside the gates, and the one surrounding it too.

To read more on this story visit: https://bit.ly/4z8FbHn