Georgia

Georgia has been hot and beautiful. Still a storm every afternoon but we are beginning to think that must be the weather pattern. The sea islands are lovely. On Cumberland Island, some of the wild horses were galloping across the beach and around the ruins of their old stables at Dungeness - the Carnegie mansion. We stopped at Jeckyll Island with this shrimp boat practically running us down. With the stabilizers down, they sure take up a lot of room. He came into the dock just behind us. They needed to raise some money for fuel so they were selling shrimp from the boat. Jumbo $3.50 a pound Medium $2.50. Really couldn't get any fresher! He had many sales in the marina and the on site restaurant bought shrimp too . Jeckyll is very beautiful with fairly strict limits on development. Many robber barons spent winters there in the early 1900's. Their cottages have been preserved in a museum. They are lovely, not on the scale of Newport just your average 5-10 bedroom Victorian mansion. These cottages all used a central clubhouse, central stables and carriage house. It is a spectacular hotel now - the Jeckyll Island club. We ate breakfast there , felt wonderfully pampered and wished we had the resources of JP Morgan, Crane, Rockefeller , or some of the others. It would be easy to spend a month or more here.