Morgan Island is one of the Sea islands located in Beaufort county, just northeast of Beaufort. Because of its colony of the free-ranging monkeys it is often referred to as "Monkey Island".  The Colony of Monkeys was established in 1979 when South Carolina adopted them from Puerto Rico, where there had been an ongoing threat of escapes on the island and incidents of the Herpes virus. 

Morgan Island is approximately 4,500-acre of marshland island that includes just over 600 acres of upland. The island is located in the St. Helena sound and borders the Whalebranch River. Morgan Island is uninhabited, other than the breeding colony of approximately 3,500 free-ranging, rhesus monkeys. As part of the uplands 370-acres supports a semi-tropical maritime forest where the monkey colony primarily resides Local biologists commute to the island daily by boat to manage the animals

The colony on Morgan Island is one of only two rhesus monkey colonies in the continental United States, the other being on the Silver River in Florida.

Morgan Island lies on the southern edge of the the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve

Our tours run the first 3 or last 3 hrs of daylight when our chances are best for spotting the animals on the edges of the island. Sighting and photographing the monkeys is like icing on the cake of wildlife tours and  the marshlands part of Morgan is bird rich and keeps us very busy when we are not with the primates.