St. Simons Island Sunrise

 St. Simons Island is protected by an historic lighthouse which still operates just like St. Augustine. It's not as tall and the staircase is not as scary, but also not quite as picturesque!
After shooting the lighthouse as the sun came up, I went to a beach area a little farther north and shot this silhouette of a weathered tree and the sun behind the clouds.   The following morning, I went to the far end of the island and was treated to a beautiful sunrise with billowing clouds and golden reflections.  Not far from the beach was the Bloody Marsh, the site of a battle between the Spanish and the English in 1742.  The Spanish were trying to reclaim the Georgian colony, but were defeated by the troops of General Oglethorpe never to hold the colony of Georgia again. 
One thing that is not over a hundred years old is the new bridge from Jekyll to St. Simons.  The structure of the bridge looks like the sails of a boat - very appropriate for an island on the coast of Georgia!