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!

Christ Church, St. Simons Island

St. Simons Island is draped with as much history as it is Spanish Moss.  Driving through the live oak lined roads, you are as likely to see a former slave cabin like Hazel's Cafe as you are to see a beautiful white clapboard church like Christ Church. Christ Church is the former parish of Charles Wesley.  His brother, John Wesley, also worked to establish a church for the people of St. Simons and Fort Frederica.
The cemetery next to Christ Church is full of stories and is the final resting place of Eugenia Price who used those stories to write novels about St. Simons Island and Georgia.

The tombstones in the cemetery are dark with age, but its obvious by the flags and flower arrangements that someone still cares about the people buried there.  I was intrigued by the tombstone with a tiny statue of a puppy and the inscription "As we looked steadfastly on him, we saw his face, as it had been the face of an angel."