Cumberland Island
Cumberland Island is 18 miles long and about 1/2 to 1 mile wide. It was originally owned by the Carnegie Family. (Steel factories) Purchased in the mid 1880 they built numerous homes for themselves and their children up until the late 1930's when the depression wiped out most of their fortune. They were unable to maintain the island , but because it was such a beautiful tract of land that had never been developed they donated it to become a federal park.
Only park vehicles are allowed on the island. To get there you must take a ferry and a max of about 400 people at any one time on the island.
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| Where ever you walk on the island it is either beach, sand dunes or forest like in this picture. The paths are almost entirely shaded because of the forest canopy |
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| Where ever you walk the trees are covered with this hanging moss. |
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| Wild turkeys roam all over the island |
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| There about 150 wild horses that still inhabit the island from the time the Carnegies lived there. |
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| This is the ruins of their estate that they lived on. They had as high as 300 servants and slaves to look after the house hold. They had their own power plant and produced almost all of their food right on the island |
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| This is what is left of the indoor swimming pool |
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Sand dunes as high as 40 feet separate the beach from the forested part of the island
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| Endangered sea turtles inhabit the island. This is a typical shell of one found on the beach |
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| We found this star fish |
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| These are the dunes separating the beach from the forest |
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The beach goes on for as far as the eye can see and almost no one on it
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| The walk from the beach across the island to the dock |
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| A tree along the path |
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