The early morning ferry ride started with the feeling of needing a defibrillator when I looked out the back of the boat to see my daughter climbing and my husband taking a photo instead of grabbing her. We quickly had to establish that feet stay on the boat, not railings and the rest of the morning went well.
The ferry ride was about thirty minutes long and was cold in the morning because of the wind and 45 degree weather to start out the trip. Sapelo Island is a barrier island on the southern Georgia coast. This island had many different people groups: Indians, Spanish, French, and then English. After the Civil War free men were given the island like most of the barrier islands which were given to freed slaves. Several communities were formed as well as a plantation mansion built by Thomas Spalding which was rebuilt by Howard Coffin in the 1920s.
The ferry wake provided a fun place for seaguls to follow.
A shrimp boat.
The dock at Sapelo Island.
A cemetery named Behavior Cemetery because the first people who settled on Sapelo were left there and told to "behave" and they would be left alone.
We had a lot of fun in the educational research library which had turtles, shrimp, fish in tanks. Sabrina has discovered her love of looking at magnified things. She did not want to leave but we had to. Outside we all tried a plant which was called the Tooth Tree. It literally had numbing properties if chewed and rubbed on tongue or gums.
And she is off!
Our tour bus.
Inside the Coffin mansion which was later sold to R.J. Reynolds.
R.J. Reynolds looks over the fire place. This house can be rented out for $150 a person plus a little bit more.
In the basement was the first "man cave" with a bowling alley,
A solid ping pong table. Would that make it "table tennis"?
The wooden pins
An old television.
Popcorn to go with the games.
Entry level floor had an atrium. We think this may have been where an indoor pool once was.
Upstairs had a conference room with a movie screen all decorated like the inside of a circus.
A bathroom off one of the bedrooms.
The reflection pool which can have water added to it for an extra fee.
Sapelo Lighthouse is an active lighthouse. Over the years, war and hurricanes changed the buildings around the lighthouse and left the lighthouse needing repair. In 1998 the State of Georgia restored and reopend the lighthouse.
Inside our little counter counted seventy-seven stairs to the top.
The light.
One side of the view.
The steps going down...hold on to the rail!
Teasing us as we waited for the ferry to leave, was a playful dolphin. Everyone tried to take pictures but found little success.
A good morning and a great relaxing ferry ride back to the mainland.
The early morning ferry ride started with the feeling of needing a defibrillator when I looked out the back of the boat to see my daughter climbing and my husband taking a photo instead of grabbing her. We quickly had to establish that feet stay on the boat, not railings and the rest of the morning went well. 
The ferry ride was about thirty minutes long and was cold in the morning because of the wind and 45 degree weather to start out the trip. Sapelo Island is a barrier island on the southern Georgia coast. This island had many different people groups: Indians, Spanish, French, and then English. After the Civil War free men were given the island like most of the barrier islands which were given to freed slaves. Several communities were formed as well as a plantation mansion built by Thomas Spalding which was rebuilt by Howard Coffin in the 1920s. 
The ferry wake provided a fun place for seaguls to follow.
A shrimp boat.
The dock at Sapelo Island.
A cemetery named Behavior Cemetery because the first people who settled on Sapelo were left there and told to "behave" and they would be left alone.
We had a lot of fun in the educational research library which had turtles, shrimp, fish in tanks. Sabrina has discovered her love of looking at magnified things. She did not want to leave but we had to. Outside we all tried a plant which was called the Tooth Tree. It literally had numbing properties if chewed and rubbed on tongue or gums. 
And she is off!
Our tour bus.
Inside the Coffin mansion which was later sold to R.J. Reynolds.
R.J. Reynolds looks over the fire place. This house can be rented out for $150 a person plus a little bit more.
In the basement was the first "man cave" with a bowling alley,
A solid ping pong table. Would that make it "table tennis"?
The wooden pins
An old television.
Popcorn to go with the games.
Entry level floor had an atrium. We think this may have been where an indoor pool once was.
Upstairs had a conference room with a movie screen all decorated like the inside of a circus.
A bathroom off one of the bedrooms.
The reflection pool which can have water added to it for an extra fee.
Sapelo Lighthouse is an active lighthouse. Over the years, war and hurricanes changed the buildings around the lighthouse and left the lighthouse needing repair. In 1998 the State of Georgia restored and reopend the lighthouse.
Inside our little counter counted seventy-seven stairs to the top.
The light.
One side of the view.
The steps going down...hold on to the rail!
Teasing us as we waited for the ferry to leave, was a playful dolphin. Everyone tried to take pictures but found little success.
A good morning and a great relaxing ferry ride back to the mainland. 
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