Biking on Jekyll Island

Saturday Wayne and I went bike riding on Jekyll Island with two of our friends Buddy and Terry. We started at the Jekyll Island Club and rode north on the island toward the pier. There were lots of people out fishing and enjoying the day with their families. On the way we stopped and took some pictures of the new Sidney Lanier Bridge. We stopped at an old cemetery that had only 5 graves in it. It was surrounded by an old cement wall that had an old iron gate on the front of it. I loved the gate. The area surrounding the cemetery was beautiful the way that the marsh flowed in and around it. We rode on around the island until we came to a place called Driftwood Beach. A lot of the locals go there during low tide and get professional photos taken of their families. They make wonderful photos. I took several photos of the beach and also some of Buddy and Terry like the first photo at the top of this entry. We even managed to get a picture of us on one of the dead trees. As we were getting ready to leave, Terry yelled that she had spotted a snake. We went to the area to investigate. Sure enough, there was a small rattlesnake in the grass. He was only about 2.5-3 feet long and only had 2-3 rattle buttons on his tail. He seemed quite content to just lay there (we think he had just eaten recently) so I of course went to work with my camera. Not as cute as the previous baby racoon pictures but still pretty cool. He looked like he had just shed recently as his scales were very vividly colored and very shiny. We finally returned to the Jekyll Island Club and had sandwiches at their cafe. We were starving by then and hot. It was a long 3-hr ride around half of the island. We saw at least 5 wedding parties on the grounds. It must have been a big weekend for that, too. All of the brides and girls looked pretty and happy and all the grooms and men looked stressed. It was pretty funny. The magnolia trees are in full-bloom right now and everything within 100 yards of one of them smells wonderful! One more photo across the marsh looking at the bridge (on the extreme left) almost at sunset from the Jekyll Island Club. The breeze was wonderful, the temperature was perfect and it was a great evening. We didn't really want to leave.