Trip to Cumberland Island (August 2006)

Morning at the Stafford Beach campsite. Many of the tent sites have live oak trees like this.

Up until a few months ago, the only service at Stafford Beach campsite was this water spigot.

Now, there are bathrooms with flush toilets, showers, and sinks.
(The water still must be filtered or boiled.)

A little over 2 hours hike south, we were back on the south end of the island (where most people visit).
Here is the entrance to the Dungeness Ruins.  The history of Dungeness started with James Oglethorpe, who built a hunting lodge he called Dungeness on the island in 1736.   In 1881, Thomas Carnegie (brother of Andrew Carnegie) built an estate there.

At the pergola.

A view of the ruins from the southeast.

These ruins are what most people come to see. A grand reminder of a time gone by.