Sunday 4/01 Easter Sunday - pulled away from the dock at
a bit before 8:00.
We started out with
light fog and then hit some pretty dense fog.
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| A couple of damaged sailboats from Hurricane Irma |
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| Fellow Looper Herb Seaton's boat, Phantom anchored in the fog off Fernandina Beach |
The challenge of the day is St. Andrews sound.
It has strong current, shifting shoals and if
there is a strong North wind, there will be big waves.
After clawing our way up the ICW in the fog, it cleared before we
arrived at today's challenging area.
We
followed a route by Bob423 and made it through St. Andrew's sound with plenty of
water beneath us.
We arrived at the
Jekyll Island Marina about 12:30.
After
some lunch, we borrowed the marina golf court and headed over to the historic
district. Jekyll Island from 1986 until 1942, was the exclusive retreat for the most wealthy Americans. There are a number of beautiful "cottages" built for the likes of
Goodyear, JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Macy and Crane to vacation. The
Jekyll Island Club Hotel is at the center of all these beautiful properties amidst
equally beautiful trees and landscaping.
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| Our mode of transportation around Jekyll Island |
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| ICW in the distance behind the trees |
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| Jekyll Island Club Hotel |
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| A proper game of croquet on the hotel's front lawn |
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| Side view of the hotel |
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| The Crane cottage built for the family of the Crane Estate in Ipswich where we had our wedding reception |
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| Crane cottage's gardens |
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| A closer view of Crane cottage's garden through the arbor |
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| Moss Cottage built in 1896 |
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| Villa Ospo was designed in 1927 for Walter Jennings |
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| Villa Marianna, built 1928 |
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| Cherokee Cottage, built 1904 |
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| Faith Chapel |
We believe JFK got married on Jekyll Island. We then took a quick ride over to see the beach
before we headed back so Tim would have time to check out the local bike trails; they
are numerous.
We grilled up some dinner
on board and witnessed a beautiful sunset.
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| Sun going down as seen from the land side of the marina |
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| Sunset as seen off our port side |
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