The wife and I are coming down for the weekend and want to bring our boat. Is there gas available at gas stations? In Columbia it’s still spotty in some areas but getting better.
Is the landing on Big Bay Creek off Palmetto Road open?
Last question, where’s Monkey Island by water?
Thanks
Yes to gas
? to landing
look up Morgan Island on chart and there you have it
to go to monkey island you head out of big bay creek and run up the south edisto to ■■■■■■■ cut. Go through ■■■■■■■ cut and hang a right. you will be on the Ashepoo river. Run up the river a little ways and hang a left at the next cut you get to this is the first half of the Ashepoo Coosaw cut at the end of this cut hang a right and shortley after turn into the second half of the Ashepoo Coosaw cut. Once you come out of the second half of the Ashepoo Cooosaw cut look straight across the Combahee river and you will be able to see Morgan/Monkey Island. Run downriver close enough to the island so you can see the entrance to the creek that runs up morgan island. Once you get to the little beach area with the sign abuot not molesting the monkeys your there. you might not see them at first but be paitent they are their. I have herd its really fun to throw them an un opened or partially opened beer. Not that I would ever think doing anything like that. Bring a chart with you and you wont have any problem. Also if you go in the morning and want to grab some lunch you can stop by Dataw Island and they have a little resturant. Dataw isnt far at all from Morgan Island.
Excellent replies. Thanks all.
Dataw restaurant is now open? Lunch and dinner or what? Any scoop appreciated. Always wanted an option on that side of the Sound.
Do what Edisto82 said and you may get to see this…
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Originally posted by palmettoresDataw restaurant is now open? Lunch and dinner or what? Any scoop appreciated. Always wanted an option on that side of the Sound.
I didnt go down that way this summer so I am not sure. I know in the past it has been open for lunch this time of the year.
186Too,
Do you have a GPS? I have numbers that may help-
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Thanks for all the replies. We had a great time.
We only waited about 5 minutes before the monkeys came to investigate. We were really surprised by the numbers we saw. The love bugs were everywhere but still had a good time.
Thanks again.
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Originally posted by 186TooThanks for all the replies. We had a great time.
We only waited about 5 minutes before the monkeys came to investigate. We were really surprised by the numbers we saw. The love bugs were everywhere but still had a good time.
Thanks again.
The first time that you see them, it is truly amazing. Glad that you had a good time. Lovebugs should be calming down very soon.
Why are there monkeys on Morgan Island? I’ve heard a lot of stories but I always wanted to know the true answer.
they are the last living population of the north american growler monkey. they were thought to be extinct many years ago but were found still in existance on morgan island. they are federally protected and it is strictly enforced, thats why the signs are there. the charleston newspaper ran a story about them recently and stated they had been searching for the monkey island for 20 years and only recently uncovered it’s secret location.
folly basser
yea i would like to know the true story also… if you search for monkey island on google earth it shows you right where it is… and this is what they say about the monkeys there…
During the summer of 1979, the rhesus monkey breeding colony of the La Parguera facility of the Caribbean Primate Research Center was shipped to Morgan Island, South Carolina. During six shipments in 1979, and three more in 1980, over 1400 animals were translocated. Mortality from shipping, primarily in infants, was approximately 0.65%. Although the monkeys were not shipped in intact social groups, they restablished their groups shortly after subunits were released onto Morgan Island (MI). Since 1979 the colony has grown almost four-fold and now numbers almost 4000 animals. There has always been a strong female bias in the colony and today females comprise 75% of the total population. That portion of the colony comprising the aged animals, especially females, has grown steadily and today is 13% of the total. Except for the first year, when the colony was translocated during its mating season, reproduction at MI has been good, with a pooled average pregnancy rate of almost 80% and live birth rate of 71%. Juvenile females have also reproduced well, averaging 76% pregnancy and 70% live birth rates. This experience demonstrates that with proper planning and execution, a large, free-ranging colony can be moved long distances with minimal stress, trauma, mortality or disruption of social structure and reproduction.
crap… somebody told the real story
folly basser
…they are there for research purposes. Cancer, aids, biochemical, etc. You name it, they are probably used to research it. I think they are also used to research hair gels, fast food, Winston’s, Bud and Bud Light and last but not least, they are watching a 24hr feed of CSPAN.
Before we went I had heard the monkeys were for research. While there I could hear heavy machinery on the island. My first thought was 
graves but I’m hoping they were just building another facility.
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Originally posted by edisto-fisherYou can take apples and bananas (and any other hard fruit really), and attach them to 4/0’s using 50lb braid and at least an 80lb leader about 10 feet long.
Anyway, sling the fruit up on the edge and the monkeys will fight over it,so much so that you can drag a couple of them at a time up to the boat. The long mono leader is key as you need the stretch to get them off the bank.
You should hear them scream when you pull the apple away from them at first to get them going.
Sometimes we take the tame ones with us for the day. Just make sure you have plenty of fruit on hand as they are always hungry.
seriously???u can actually get ones to come into the boat? do they act cool or do you have to constantly attend to them? so you drag them into the water then to the boat or have the boat at the bank and they come right into the boat?
~LiVe LiFe On ThE EdGe~
180 GRADYWHITE
150 YAMI
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Originally posted by BIG COUNTRYquote:
Originally posted by edisto-fisherYou can take apples and bananas (and any other hard fruit really), and attach them to 4/0’s using 50lb braid and at least an 80lb leader about 10 feet long.
Anyway, sling the fruit up on the edge and the monkeys will fight over it,so much so that you can drag a couple of them at a time up to the boat. The long mono leader is key as you need the stretch to get them off the bank.
You should hear them scream when you pull the apple away from them at first to get them going.
Sometimes we take the tame ones with us for the day. Just make sure you have plenty of fruit on hand as they are always hungry.
seriously???u can actually get ones to come into the boat? do they act cool or do you have to constantly attend to them? so you drag them into the water then to the boat or have the boat at the bank and they come right into the boat?
~LiVe LiFe On ThE EdGe~
180 GRADYWHITE
150 YAMI
I had a friend in Beaufort several years ago who worked at the research facility in Yemassee. We called her “Monkey Girl”, because of her job, not her looks. She was pretty hot, in a Laura Dern sort of way. I seem to remember that the monkeys used at the research facility came from Morgan Island. I can’t guarantee this info. They have to do something to control the population or disease will eventually take over.
As for Monkeyfishing…
I’m glad to see someone else here reads the WSJ Opinion Journal:
Monkey Business
Michael Kinsley, editor of Slate, is a very clever fellow, but he’s always struck us as somewhat unworldly. You know what we mean–the sort of guy who has a lot of book learning but is short on street smarts. Well, it appears he has fallen for an obvious hoax. Yesterday Slate published an article about a “monkeyfishing” trip the author, Jay Forman, supposedly took in 1996. Forman claims he went to “a horrible monkey-infested island called Lois Key” in Florida, where “a pharmaceutical company had released a bunch of rhesus monkeys there and left them to breed, thereby supplying research labs around the country with a fresh supply of experimental test subjects.” The monkeys “were miserable there, howling and screeching and polluting the pristine waters with their feces.”
This description of the island, unlikely as it is, actually is true, as this 1998 CNN story confirms. But Forman’s account of his “monkeyfishing” expedition is preposterous:
Fruits were the bait of choice. . . . Once the bait was on the hook, I watched as the monkeyfisherman cast it onto the island, then waited. Not for long. The monkeys swarmed round the treat, and when the fisherman felt a strong tug he jerked the pole. I knew he had hooked one by the shriek it made–a primal yowl that set my hair on end. The monkey came flying from the trees, a juicy apple stapled to its palm.
He didn’t actually land the monkey on the boat, since having a pissed-off, screeching monkey on the end of a hook running around a s