Jekyll Island, Georgia

After a week on Tybee Island we traveled about 75 miles south to Jekyll Island, Georgia and soon settled in at the state park campground. We reserved two nights here but that will hardly be enough. Lots of older folks are camping here, many for a month of more. We thankfully have full hookups because our solar panels surely would not work well under these giant live oaks draped in Spanish moss that are intermingled with the even taller pines. It is the perfect Halloween setting! Our first order of business was to ride off on the bike path to the Clam Creek area. Here we visited with folks fishing and crabbing.

In the bay was this shrimp boat with Brunswick in the distance.

It seems that everyone is fishing for something along the coast.

Leon catches a break wherever he can.

This horseshore crab shell might serve him well in the campground where acorns keep landing on top of him.

The bike trail led us through this beautiful marsh.

We stopped to observe the tide was going out.

Nearby I watched this Kingfisher (I think) catch a fish in one of the little streams and then he flew up in a nearby tree for breakfast.

Soon we spotted this buck wandering through the marsh. He posed for me when he heard Leon in the distance. I am enjoying my new camera with it's 12x zoom.

Back at the Jekyll Island campground folks were busy riding bikes and watching birds also. With the dirt roads this reminds me of a scout camp for old folks.

After a lunch break we are off to the beach again. There are a lot of paths to the beach and pull offs along the road where you can just walk a short trail to the beach. The only parking charges, unlike at Tybee, are when you enter the island. You pay $5 which is good until midnight but you don't have to pay again until you leave and return to the island.

Our new bikes take a rest against a Palmetto while we explore. Mine is the pretty gray one with a green stripe. They are serving us very well on this trip.

Driftwood Beach is aptly named. There were few people out. Some kids were looking for shells and a  small group was doing a photo shoot.

A visit to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center was time well spent. This is a place where they rehabilitate turtles. Karen had been tangled in fishing line and was also heavily covered with barnacles. She will be released back into the ocean eventually.

She seems content to be swimming in circles in a tank but how would you ever know?

The center was well staffed and everyone was just going about their daily routine.

This worker was encouraging a turtle to eat what looked like cucumbers.

They also have an operating room. They were going to bring a turtle in to cleanse her wound but we did not stay that long.

There was another beach on the southern end of the island to explore. St. Andrews beach supposedly has the most shells but we saw hardly any. We also saw hardly any people.

There is also plenty of geocaching on Jekyll Island so I will drop off this travel bug I picked up on Tybee in a cache here.

We can't see Alaska from our porch but we certainly can see the sunset from our living room. I walked across the road to get a clearer few of the sun setting on the ocean and the nearby marsh. Then we call it a day and get up and have just as much fun the next day!