A Day on Jekyll Island

Day 54, Sunday, November 20, 2016 

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We awoke to a cold windy morning.  I have no thermometer to provide a temperature of the outside air but with a north wind blowing and forecast warning of temps in the low 40s, we could say that it was cold.  Since we

The original Jekyll Island club house

were not moving forward toward our next destination, I stayed in bed until 6:00. That hasn’t happened often.

I didn’t make breakfast this morning.  Dwight and I have been invited to join Sam and Wally for a blueberry pancake with Canadian maple syrup breakfast on Mona Kea.  I offered to bring bacon and my little stove to help Lori prepare her wonderful meal.  After breakfast, we sat and visited until mid-morning.  I spent the remainder of the morning doing various chores around the boat. 

The last Clubhouse now a hotel

We had heard that there were many interesting things to see on Jekyll Island so Dwight, Sam and I decided to take a golf cart and head to the historic district for a tour.  The tours are reported to be an hour and a half long and the golf carts could only be checked out for 1 ½ hours so we opted to take their cruiser bicycles. 

The historic district is about 1.6 miles from the marina so after a nice easy ride, we stopped at the islands museum to buy our tickets.  There are two ways to take the tour; you can take a ride on a horse drawn carriage or on a tram that consists of about 6 cars pulled by a jeep.  We opted for the jeep ride.

The Moss Cottage, built 1896.  The one we toured

The Jekyll Island Club was a private club on Jekyll Island, on Georgia's Atlantic coast. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting and recreational club purchased the island for $125,000 from John Eugene du Bignon. The original design of the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, with its signature turret, was completed in January 1888. The club thrived through the early 20th century; its members came from many of the world's wealthiest families, most notably the Morgans, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts.

The Goodyear Cottage built 1906

The club closed at the end of the 1942 season due to complications from World War II. In 1947, after five years of funding a staff to keep up the lawn and cottages, the island was purchased from the club's remaining members for $675,000 during condemnation proceedings by the state of Georgia.

The wealthy members of the Club built cottages all along the islands eastern shore and our tour took us around probably 10 or so. We were able to go into the original frame clubhouse and one of the private homes.  Our guide was informative and passionate about the preservation and restoration that

Their non-denominational church with gargoyles

continues.

Back at the boat, I fixed a cheeseburger mac dinner with a side of GREEN BEANS.  Sam had given me a packet of spices that were to be added to the green things.  The packaged was to be used with 1 pound of beans so I sprinkled a little bit onto my little serving and added the suggested squirt of lemon juice and some fresh lemon zest.  These added ingredients made for me a slightly sour seasoned serving of GREEN BEANS.

Apartments for the rich said to be the first condominiums 

After dinner, I gathered up my cake making supplies and Dwight and I headed to the beautiful Beneteau Destiny for a truly enjoyable evening with the boats owners, Peter and Christine, and Rob and Sharon from the boat, Atheria. The cake appeared to be a hit and by the end of the gathering, only a very small sliver was left.

Outside the temperature again had plummeted so we would again depend on the little space heater to keep us somewhat comfortable during the night.  I made curfew.