Started out the day with a hearty breakfest at one of Jill's favorite places, Craker Barrel. Watching Jill eat grits is one of the great pleasures of my life? After breakfest we proceed on to the pier at St. Marys for the ferry ride to Cumberland Island which is about 45 minutes around the marshes or about 10 minutes as the crow flies. Once we arrived at the island we had to wait to dock because of several dolphins were playing between the boat and the dock. It was a pretty warm day, in the mid 80's and clear and the only transportation around the island is by foot so you have to be ready for a long day. The island it self has a long history dating back to the revolution. For you history buffs, Nathaniel Greene, a revolutionary war General started a timber/ship building business on 11,000 acres he bought after the war (he went broke) but in the mid 1840's they started growing cotton on the island which was pretty profitable. In the 1880's the brother of Andrew Carnegie (Pittsburg Steel tycoon) bought 90 percent of the island at his wife's (Lucy) insistance moved their whole family (9 kids) to the island. They ended up building 4 manisons with the main house (called Dungeness) costing $200,000 at the time. The family continued to live on the island until Lucy's death in 1902. The land was donated by the Carnegie's and became a National Park in the 1970's. Unfortunately, the main house burned down in 1959 and all that's left are some walls and chimmney's which are brick and stone as you can see from the attached pictures. The island is only as wide as about 1/2 mile in some places and over 2 miles in others and about 9 miles long. We obviously didn't walk it all in the time we were there but we saw quite a bite. We saw a number of wild horses out in the fields and several on the beach, you could just walk right up to them, I guess they are so used to people that we didn't bother them. The beach on the Atlantic side of the island was quite a bit like the beach in Daytona, long hard and flat with big sand dunes all the way down the beach. Just off the beach there a groves of big oak trees with winding branches going every direction, looks like they're all twisted together, really cool. After about 3 1/2 hrs on the island and about 4 1/2 miles of walking in the heat we decided to catch the ferry back to St. Marys. Once we arrived in St Marys, to my surprise it was just about happy hour and there just happened to be a place right across from the landing. Well once there we decided to have dinner along wih happy hour. As I had said eariler in the day we had had breakfest and Jill had her grits but as we looked at the menu, wouldn't you know the house specialty is "Shrimp and Grits", I guess its just one of thoughs days in the south. Hope you enjoyed the read.