Jekyll the Freckle

We spent the second half our vacation on Jekyll Island. It was a 3 hour drive up from Orlando to the Island which is just barely in GA over the FL line. Jekyll is unique because commercial development has been stopped circa 1980. The Island is a state park. There are no new hotels on the island and no new homes have been built for 30 7ears. The result is a fabuously uncrowded island with lots of public access. We had talked about hosting the Doug Ward family reunion there the next time we hosted it. (I doubt that will happen as we will live 3000 miles away next time we host it!) We camped there on spring break as well. This time we stayed in a beach house. Our friends had a meeting there, rented a beach house for the week but could only stay til wednesday. We got the house the rest of the week! :)

Sunset. We called this the sound side of the Island. I don't think it is technically a sound as it is not very wide.

Another mighty atlantic ocean wave rolls in. At low tide the waves were pretty boring!

This is a sand bar on the island. At low tide you can walk a quarter mile out into the ocean. The tide was just starting to come in when we went out. By the time we turned around the water was a foot deep in spots. That made Emma a bit nervous.

I love this bridge. It is a massive suspension bridge that spans the river coming into the sound. I think that Chas took this picture.

The fishing peir. We went crabbing for blue crabs. We didn't catch any blue crab but we did get one hermit crab! As you can see it was kind of windy that night.

We had a lot of fun!!