Jekyll Island Georgia

It’s a state park on an entire island. Pretty cool. It costs $5 to get on the island. You can stay as long as you want but if you leave and come back after 24 hours, it’ll cost you another $5. There are annual passes that are cheaper and I’m sure the residents don’t have to pay.

This is the grand entrance to the island

 

Once on the island, we spotted some big birds that I think were turkey vultures. They’re kind of slow but not nearly slow enough that they have to worry about Tigger eating them for dinner. He had a blast chasing them and I had fun watching the old boy pretend he was young again.

 

Tigger's getting slow in his old age. Aren't we all though? ---->Video of Tigger chasing the vultures


We saw a Itasca Navion (the Views twin) towing a car.




We haven’t had more than a few hours to explore so the pics will be limited. More tomorrow fo’ sho’.

 

Creepy vulture trees



I met a radio control plane guru named Doug. I asked if it'd be ok to hang out and watch while he flew his planes. He welcomed the company.  I used to be into RC planes back in the late 1980’s but I never flew any of mine. I always felt that I had too much time & money invested to actually fly them. Without a trainer, I knew I’d crash my first time out. So, I drove them around like a car in the parking lots, taking short “hops” but never any actual flights. I ended up bringing them to NY with me in 1990 and eventually selling them for next to nothing in a yard sale. In hindsight, I probably should have just tried to fly them.

Doug was an old pro. He flies RC helicopters too. Everything he flies is electric though. To get the full effect and for full realism, RC toys need real engines. Electric is cheap, clean and easy but it’s lacking realism in my opinion.

 

Take off video here  This is way cool. I might have to get me one of these !!!

I finally got a chance to use my awesome bug hat. The no-see-ums here on this island are as bad as I have experienced ANYWHERE. Yuck! I had shorts on but had to run back to the RV to put on long pants, socks and my groovy anti-bug hat. IT WORKED GREAT! Watching Doug get eaten alive, I didn't feel the slightest bit goofy wearing it.



The sun’s going down.
G’nite from Jekyll Island Georgia.