Dan Cornell with golden tilefish Before I get going I have to make a confession. Fair or not, being a life long southern boy when I get behind cars with New Jersey plates I wonder why anybody would …

If my timing is correct (which it usually isn’t), I’ll be chilling up in the North Carolina mountains with my wife Karen when this issue comes out. As hot as it has been here this summer the idea …

Sea Turtle Patrol Hilton Head Island monitors Hilton Head Island beaches for sea turtle nesting and hatching activity annually, May through October, to promote the existence of this endangered …

My father would sail to work in the summer. If you missed my column in the last issue, I talked about what it was like growing up here in the Lowcountry way before development changed everything. So …

Unlike today, shrimping in the 60’s was big business. Photo taken at Toomer’s docks. Since I am new at being old, I guess reminiscing becomes more frequent in ones so called “Golden Years.” …

It seems to me that a solution to the alligator problem when it comes to golf is to keep players away from the banks of the lagoons, since the alligators are not going to stay away from the banks of …

Though I can’t explain it, the first few days of summer always makes me think back to the time when my folks picked up all five kids and moved us to the Lowcountry. The year was 1961 and if my mind …

All manner of birds, mammals and reptiles appreciate a backyard that has achieved certified wildlife habitat status. When friends come to visit our home and see our wildlife-friendly habitat, they …

It’s that time of year again when alligators begin to mate; they become most aggressive during the mating and nesting season.   The human population of the Lowcountry seems to dramatically …

Collins and sister Grace with his prize-winning marlin at the Sea Pines Billfish Tournament, circa 1975. My angling life began at a very early age, when my dad put a cane pole in my hand and a can of …