Jekyll Island to Brunswick, GA

Day #513; Loop Miles to Date = 5,647

On Thursday we took off from Jekyll Island to go all the way to Brunswick...only about 9 miles, but the Brunswick Landing Marina was a better spot for us to spend a couple of days exploring the area. 

Brunswick surprisingly has a fairly robust port...here we are passing a massive car carrier coming into Brunswick. This beast is 2 football fields long.

Brunswick Landing is a nice stop...we were here last year on our way north. It is a large facility, with great people...free laundry, decent Wi-Fi, easy dog walking, a number of good restaurants within walking distance...a good spot for us for a couple of days. We rented a car for a few days, because we really wanted to spend some time on St. Simons Island. We promised ourselves that we would stop here on one of our trips past, and this worked out perfectly. On Friday, we checked out the downtown shopping district, waterfront park, and just walked around a bunch enjoying the day.

St Simons Island Lighthouse

A local artist has evidently carved life sized figures into the trunks of trees in about 7 or 8 locations scattered around the island. This was the one example we stumbled on near the visitors center.

On Saturday, we accomplished our primary reason for wanting to visit St Simons...we returned to the spot where we were married many moons ago - The Lovely Lane Chapel. We had not been back here since our wedding, and it was great to spend some time just peacefully wandering the grounds and visiting the Chapel on a beautiful day.

We also went looking for the grave site of Eugenia Price (famous author) who is buried in the Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, but had no luck finding it. Unfortunately, we were not there during hours when a docent would have been available to help us, but we gave it a try anyway. Another beautiful spot. And then right down the road a ways is the Fort Frederica National Monument. We watched a brief video, soaking in some history from the time when this fort and town were contested by the British and Spanish. It dovetailed nicely with some of the learning's that we acquired when we toured the fort in St Augustine recently. All in all, it was a great day!

So...we are here for another day (or perhaps 2) and then we'll head north. We have a couple of 1 night stops, and then plan to be in Savannah by Thursday. All for now...thanks for reading...

Yet another nice sunset...this at the Brunswick Marina.