We left Saint Simons Island yesterday and moved on down to Jekyll Island to the south. It was another cloudy, cool and blustery day. After getting tied up and settled, we walked up the dock into the Jekyll Island Club district. This is an area steeped in history and old money. In 1886, John Eugene Du Bignon divided this area of the island in to shares and sold the lots to wealthy businessmen. It became the winter vacation home to some of the richest and most powerful men of their time.









These are pictures of the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, which is still in operation. It was in this hotel that the power brokers of their time got together and drafted the legislation to create the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Island is now owned by the State of Georgia and it is preserved as a national landmark.




The state has done a wonderful job of maintaining this jewel of the south. We walked the narrow streets and viewed the many "cottages."














Dan sat on the porch of the hotel, in the same chair that may have been occupied by Goodyear, J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Vanderbilt or Crane.

Before we left Jekyll Island, we used the marina bikes and rode to the other side of the island and walked the beach. We have been along the Atlantic coast for weeks, but this was our first opportunity to see the beach and feel the sand under our feet.








Look who we ran into on our walk!

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Location:Jekyll Island, Georgia