We Just spent a wonderful weekend on our most favorite place of the trip so far. What an amazing island! We had such a great time when we got to Cumberland Island, Georgia that we stayed an extra 2 days. 
We highly recommend this for anyone who wants to just "get away from it all" Cumberland Island is pretty unique. It has no way to buy anything on it, nothing commercial, you can only get there by boat and is run as a national park and the Nature Conservancy oversees it. The island was once 90% owned by the Carnegie family but about 20 years ago
all the residents wanted to protect it from development and so donated it so it would
remain a park. A few residents still retain the right to live on the island, and there is
one very exclusive 5-star B&B but other than that, it is all park.
There is public camping, but only 300 people maximum are allowed.
Can you believe these trees?
You might think this looks like a regular pastured
horse, but The horses on the island are all wild, and have been on the island for many generations!
You can still see the ruins of some of the magnificent Carnegie and Rockefeller mansions, and the Rockefellers still have some private homes on the Island.
But after all this, . . .the best was yet to come!
We agree that the best part of the Island was the
miles of beach we had all to ourselves.
We had never seen so many shells and truly enjoyed
immersing ourselves in the sights and sounds
and smells of the ocean!
We hated to say Goodbye!
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