Post #56672 by tikijackalope on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 12:01 AM

My tiki loving g/f and I made mini-golf at Myrtyl Beach part of our vacation with a stop-over on Oct 19. We also consulted Tiki Road Trip and did find both Hawaiian Rumble and Hawaiian Caverns. The former is actually in North Myrtle Beach, which may be why you did not find it. Those erupting volcanos are used in at least three mini-golf courses in the area. You didn't miss anything at Hawaiian Rumble. We looked it over and apart from two crude Tikis that decorated support posts for the porch, we saw no tikiness. They did sell a tiki mug that says "Myrtle Beach" on the front. We played Hawaiian Caverns (same owner as Rumble); it has two tiki face plaques in the office and Hawaiian vocabulary lessons mounted on the hole numbering markers but no tikiness otherwise. It also has a number of fiberglass African Animals, which suggests a previous theme. We saw Tribal Island advertised in a coupon book, but the phone number was disconnected and we didn't run across the place, so I fear it may be gone or morphed into something else. Locals tell me that mini-golf courses go out of business frequently only to emerge with another theme. I suspect Tribal Island may have been born of the "Survivor" reality show craze. We'll check on it next year in case the phone was only disconneceted as a seasonal measure. I envy that you got to play it! - Greg