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| Page Views: 512 Last Visit to Jekyll Island: January, 2007 | Stop on the Way to Waycross 2007 by grandmaR - last update: May 1, 2007 |
| Sea Jay's Cafe from the parking lot |
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12 January 2007 After breakfast (I had a delicious fruit cup with grapes and grapefruit in it, and scrambled eggs), we checked out of the Hampton Inn, and drove back over the bridge to the mainland. I took this picture of boats anchored in the bend of the river from the bridge. We went north to Georgia and stopped at the Georgia information station on I-95. Then we turned east to Jekyll Island. To go onto the island there is a $3.00 "parking fee", so we stopped at the entrance booth to pay and then started to circumnavigate the island. |
We had not been to Jekyll except by boat, and that not since 2002. One of the times that we stopped, we borrowed a car from the marina, to go to the grocery store, but we had not seen any other parts of the island. We drove along the ocean side, passing old people on bicycles and the golf ball water tower |
My goal was to take photos of the inlet and St. Simon's lighthouse from the south side. After I had done that, we drove around the other side of the island past the Horton House Historic Site with historic markers and signs, and the airport with the little electric cars. |
Then we went to the museum about the "Clubhouse" which is now a hotel. They had a very interesting movie about it, which we saw. Since I could not take photos inside the buildings, I compromised by taking pictures of the video presentation. We did not take the little train trip, nor did we ride the horsedrawn carriage. |
We did drive around to the clubhouse and some of the historic houses and I took pictures of some of the buildings out of the car window. |
Then we passed the marina in front of the clubhouse (which has always looked deserted up to now, but which seems to have been rejuvinated), and went to Sea Jay's cafe for lunch. I had Brunswick Stew as usual, and Bob had steamed shrimp. |
| Looking back down the road to Jekyll Island |
And then we went out through the exit gates, and back to the highway to head for St. Simon's Island and the lighthouse on the other side of the inlet. |
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lex1236 Wed Jan 19, 2005 23:35 UTC
The wreck on Jekyll isn't a sailboat its whats left of the mast on a shrimp boat. Looking closer you can see that its bent to the side suggesting the nets caught on a heavy snag or that the boat sank offshore and its the result of rolling on the bottom. | tpangelinan Thu Feb 26, 2004 21:38 UTC
Very nice page! We loved Jekyll Island! We are planning to vacation there soon. Thanks, Great photos and tips! :o) | daarth Mon Feb 9, 2004 14:41 UTC
uuhhhhh! "knock wood" I still have not hit anything with my keel...... :-) | Scotsgal Sun Jun 15, 2003 05:48 UTC
Sounds like an interesting place! |
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