Last day on Cumberland...part 2

This was awesome! No one knows when or if you will see a sub leaving or coming in to the US Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary's. This sub just happen to be heading out to sea. Usually helicopters escort the sub out since it really cannot protect itself at the surface, but we think due to the weather, the helicopters were unable to fly. John says the continental shelf is 60 miles off shore, so the sub cannot dive until it reaches that point.




Johnathan all packed up and ready to leave with John. They are standing at the bottom of the steps leading to John's, borrowed, apartment above the ranger station. A neat fact...this apartment was built over Charles Fraser's real estate office. He is the man who developed Hilton Head Island and planned to do the same to Cumberland. With the help of the Carnegie family who owned a great deal of the land and the conservationists of Georgia, the island was never developed and became a national seashore in 1972 when President Nixon signed the bill.









Here, Uncle John is swearing Johnathan in as a Junior Ranger. He now holds a Junior Ranger badge and a Cumberland Island National Seashore patch.
The Junior Ranger Motto is "Explore, Learn, Protect."








The National Park Service emblem.


















This is actually in the ranger station, but we saw these egg cases that look kind of like a snake skin, all over the beach.











Uncle John, Johnathan, and I on the porch of the ranger station.












Grandaddy, Johnathan, John, Grandma, and I on the front porch of the ranger station.












This is the Dungeness Dock which is the first stop on the way in and last stop on the way out.












Goodbye, Uncle John! See you in a week!


















That sandy area is where we drove during low tide to the dredge piles. It's not low tide now, and not high tide either.











This is back on the mainland in a store. We're not sure if this alligator was ever real, but it's fun to take pictures with it. The guy even let Johnathan sit on it for a picture.