The history of many of the barrier islands reads similarly. For Cumberland Island it was the Carnegies’ private refuge. At Jekyll Island it was “The Club” where the world’s wealthiest around 1900 came to play; JP Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts. We saw ruins and restored stately mansions (they called them cottages….really now!) they often had 40+ rooms. The one built by Mr. Crane was said to have an inordinate number of bathrooms…humm.
They are beautiful islands with white sand beaches and dunes facing the sea backed by a nearly continuous canopy of spanish moss draped live oak throughout the center of the island. We saw a few new birds, even a threaten Wilson’s Plover that is nesting here. We walked a few miles of quiet beach. Nice visit