From My 2006 Travel Notes - 2 of x

Log Date: 17 May, 2006
Log Time: ~ 2300 H EDT
Location: Jekyll Island Club Hotel, GA
2nd Floor Guest Room

As we approached the turn-off on Route 520- Highway 17 North onto the Jekyll Island Causeway leading to the island, we saw an abundant growth of salt marshes and Spartina grasses along the road. These were the anchor plants of the marine-estuarine ecosystems commonly found in the Georgia and South Carolina low country. Surely, the early trans-Atlantic settlers had had to wade through the mud flats, marshes, insects, and what not to go ashore. Would they have been as beholden to these confounding natural wonders as we do today? Then again, when all things considered, having survived a long and perilous ocean voyage to reach the New World, muddy salt marshes and other natural impediments were of little significance to the settlers.

When we arrived at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, William said, if we could, we should view the sunset at 8:18 PM. Why would a hotel shuttle driver bothered with celestial events, much less to impart such knowledge to strangers? He was a rare bird, indeed. As the twilight glare of a slowly consuming ember spreading wide and deep over the island, William’s invitation beckoned me to stray from checking in at the front desk...