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Total Miles: 298.6 NM
Back in July, we had to rush past Cumberland Island in order
to get above latitude 31° to maintain our insurance coverage. The weather has been windy and rather than
backtracking with the boat, we decided to drive one hour south to the ferry in
St. Mary’s and spend the day on the island.
Cumberland Island National Seashore is known for
its wild horses, 2 Carnegie mansions, no cars, beautiful beaches, saltwater
marshes, and dense maritime forests. To see the island, you can hike, ride bikes or take a van-tour. We opted for the 6-hour tour in a 12-person van in order to see most of the island before the 4:45pm ferry back to the mainland. We bounced along a one lane sandy road from one end of the island to the other.
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| All aboard the ferry |
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| Marshland and a lone wild horse |
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| Tiny church where John F. Kennedy Jr. was married |
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| Room for your closest friends.... |
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| Plum Orchard Mansion - built for Thomas Carnegie's son, George and his wife, Margaret in 1898. It is beautifully maintained and furnished as it was in 1898. |
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| More wild horses -descendants of the domesticated horses brought to the island in the 1800-1900's. |
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| The ruins of Dungeness - the mansion built by Thomas and Lucy Carnegie in 1884 |
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| A horse and an armadillo. That little armadillo was running all around the horses - neither concerned with the other. There's a children's story just waiting to be written..... |
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| Oak trees are everywhere draped with 'old man's beard' also known as 'Spanish Moss' - which is neither Spanish nor moss. It's from the bromeliad family and takes its nutrients from the air, not the tree. |
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