Brian--I think that one at #9 has been there a very long time....the club used to have a video of it in a fight with another gator and, if I recall correctly, he ripped the intruding gator's leg off....
AHughes--you have stop at the Callawassie gate, be on the list for Spring Island and then you drive thru Callawassie to access a causeway over to Spring Island....as you go over that causeway, you feel like you're entering a different world...a special, special place.