Jekyll Island - Our First Rain

We're now on Jekyll Island - a Georgia barrier island. The entire island once was owned by a group of "barons" of the end of the 19th century. Now, it seems like a cross between Walt Disney World, Newport Mansions and a large National Park. By law, the island must remain at least 65% undeveloped and it is criss-crossed by 20 miles of paved biking trails. That's the good news - but the bad news is that it has rained since we arrived here, yesterday afternoon. We really can't complain because it's the first rain-out in the month that we've been traveling. BUT it is unfortunate that the forecast is for it to rain, again, tomorrow and we leave on Wednesday. Guess we'll just have to return here, again.

Despite the rain, we did visit the beach, for a few minutes, to view and photograph the turbulent sea. We also stopped by the Nature center where there were several sizes of sea turtles. Ellyn can't help but think of the turtle, Crush, in "Finding Nemo" when she sees those real turtles. We had a great seafood lunch - love those Grouper sandwhiches - and dropped by the Jekyll Museum which had a lot of details about all aspects of Jekyll Island's past.

We are hoping that there is a break in the rain, tomorrow, for us to do some bike riding and, perhaps, to take a tram tour of the island.

Happy Birthday to Brian, yesterday. And we're on a countdown to Friday - Geoff's big birthday!

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