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| Captain Jay having a breakfast of champions at his nav seat and checking the morning news. We have our delicious souvenirs of fresh picked citrus fruit from Cumberland Island Park, compliments of the Carnegie mansion gardens and the Park Ranger. Soon ready to depart the anchorage. |
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| As we motored up the St. Mary's River, we met the Cumberland Lady ferry taking folks to visit Cumberland Island from St. Mary's town across the ICW. The ferry is the way most people visit Cumberland Island and St. Mary's makes it easy for visitors with convenient free parking. |
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| Free town dock to tie up and we went exploring. Market on the Square was this colorful old general store owned by Shannon shown in the photo. Shannon has lived in St. Mary's for her 28 years and only left town to go to college. She met her husband, Tony, who came to St. Mary's on a sailboat bound for a trip to the Bahamas about 5 years ago. They have a love story ready for a Nicholas Spark's novel. We also found a used book store a few blocks off Main Street that should be on your list of places to visit for its decor, chatty owner as well as the books inside. |
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| As we were walking back to the boat, on the sidewalk we met Dave and Sue from England who also took the Cumberland Island tour with us yesterday. They are visiting by RV camper. They bought their RV a few years ago in Ohio through the internet and have camped the West Coast. Now they are working up the East Coast. They camp for 6 months in the US and return to visit family in England for 6 months. It was Dave & Sue's first time ever on a sailboat or boat smaller than a ferry. We decided that we were all camping, them on land and we on water. They liked being able to get off and walk around. We don't think we sold them on boating. It was a fun afternoon meeting new friends. |
