Good Shelling Areas? Dolphin Cruises/Boat Tours?

Are there any good shelling areas around Hilton Head?

We also wanted to go on a dolphin cruise/boat tour. Any recommendations for two adults in their mid 30s?

Thanks for your help!

Good Shelling Areas? Dolphin Cruises/Boat Tours?

SunnyDey: I forgot to add this in my personal email you to. A great dolphin tour is the Commander Zodiac out of South Beach Marina. They are recommended by BBC/Discovery/Nat%26#39;l Geographic. The tour is 1 hr long and we saw tons of dolphins. They TAKE you to where the dolphins are spotted, not a preset course. You sit on the side of the Zodiac, very fun. We have also been on the Stars %26amp; Stripes 65%26#39; sailboat out of Harbourtown. Very cool. It%26#39;s so reasonable for a two hour tour. The dolphins swam alongside us but the dolphins are a plus on that tour, the sailing is the main thing. I would highly recommend both of these as we have taken both tours. We also did the dolphin kayak tour our of South Beach Marina, fun, dolphins may/may not be seen or very close.

That being said, our family is not for the highly guided ';Ladies and gentlemen, on your left you will see the ................'; type tours.

D in Muskoka.

Good Shelling Areas? Dolphin Cruises/Boat Tours?

I would also love to know about the shelling on the island. We are going in May and have 2 girls that want to find shells.

Thanks to anyone that can give any info.

There aren%26#39;t many shells to be found in Hilton Head (IMHO). We did a lot of beachcombing last year and sharks teeth became the treasure finds. We got good at looking for the distinctive ';Y'; shape and found about 20 teeth during our week stay. As for really nice shells, we only found a few on the beach at the southern end of the island and unfortunately, all of the nice ones we found still had live inhabitants so we didn%26#39;t keep them (also found live sand dollars, starfish and even a live horseshoe crab but returned them all to the sea as well). We did not explore the northern section of beach above about the Hilton but we did cover the beach from Harbortown all the way around to the Hilton.

We did a boat trip that was billed as a beach combing trip. It ended up just being our family so that was a nice treat. We spent a lot time looking for and finding lots of dolphins and then we landed on an old oyster shell coverd island and did some beachcombing there. It was not nearly as good as I had hoped for but it was a nice trip overall.

If you are really looking for a decent amount of shells on the beach, HHI is not the place.

Thanks for all of the info!

The dolphin/boat tours sound great. I will definitely look into it. Does the Zodiac tour have any kind of website? I tried googling it, but I could not find it.

SunnyDey: I see what you mean about a website. The local number for them is 843-671-3344. I would phone them, ask for a website if they have one. Otherwise, they can give you prices. They usually have an answering machine if they are out so, leave your number and they will call you.

If you go on Yahoo travel and search it, there are some great reviews there posted. Believe me, it%26#39;s a lot of fun!

If you go to www.hiltonhead360.com it%26#39;s a good site.

For the Stars %26amp; Stripes go to www.vagabondcruise.com and there are discount coupons to print too.

Thank you again!