Holiday
Brunswick, Georgia and Saint Simons Island for thanksgiving 2008
- The Jekyll Island Club
Coastal Georgia is one of my favorite places because it is one of the East Coast’s last wild areas. The overdevelopment that has plagued the Outer Banks, Long Island, et al hasn’t really scarred the Ga coast yet. Mainly I think that is because so many of the Georgia barrier Islands are Federally protected areas- Cumberlamd Island national seashore, Jekyll Island State Park, Sapelo Island just to name a few of them.
Brunswick was founded in 1771 and in 1789 George Washington proclaimed Brunswick as one of the five ports of entry for the American States.
We have been exploring Coastal Georgia for many years and we spend a lot of time there. I have three slide shows from the area. The first two are the holidays over Thanksgiving 2008 and the third is a series of b/w photos I’ve taken of the area. We traditonally eat Thanksgiving dinner mid-day at Crane Cottage, on Jekyll Island. In the holiday slide show, you’ll see us collecting 60 million year old fossilized shark teeth on the beaches - one of our favorite pastimes (along with sea kayaking, crabbing and beach combing).
B/W images Brunswick, Jekyll Island
Brunswick websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,_Georgia , http://www.brunswickga.org/ , http://www.jekyllclub.com/meetings.asp?id=114