10/15/14 - On 10/13, Esther and I went to Cumberland Island for the day.  It was a very interesting day.  We left the RV at 7:30am to go to St. Mary's, Georgia to pick up a 9:00am ferry.  We got there, got our ferry tickets and then inquired regarding an all day tour that we had been told was booked but we could be stand by.  We put our names on the list and returned to the desk at 8:45am to learn that we would be able to get on the tour.  The ferry ride was a 45 minute ride.  On the way, the ferry almost stopped because they had to make room for a large military submarine that was coming in to port.  That was really interesting to watch.  We got to the island and then boarded a van with 3 other people for our guided tour.  The island is not commercialized at all so we had to take a picnic lunch, drinks, sun screen, and insect repellent.  We traveled over very bumpy roads, got a little of history, toured a mansion that was occupied by the Carnegie's, lots of slave history and of course because forest area with the marsh land to our west and the Atlantic to our east.  We saw wild horses, wild turkeys, lots of egrets and one little alligator in the middle of the road.  Our guide was very informative.  We then decided to walk to the beach which was further than I thought.  It took me 20 minutes to walk over to the beach to look around and see huge dark clouds coming in so we started back as fast as possible but we got caught about 3/4 back to the building with a porch.  It really had a lot of lightening and thunder with the storm but we got soaked.  We even had rain ponchos but we still got wet.  Back to the RV around 6:00pm and of course immediately changed clothes.

I have attached a picture of a little baptist church on the north side of the island because this is the little church that John Kennedy, Jr got married at!!

                                                                The little church

10/15/14 - Today, we stayed here since we needed to do some laundry and put some items back that we had used yesterday.  It rained really hard last night so today has been a little more comfortable.