Cori Greenawalt-Bicknell

Go to Summer Waves, Globe Hunting during Jan and Feb, Christmas Lights and Tree Lighting, Shrimp and Grits Festival and 4th of July..

Tasha Oneal

summer waves..shrimp and grits festival..beach concerts…pier fishing….4th of july

Sara Roy

Too many great things to choose from! But, our favorite thing to do is cruise the island in our red bug!

Abby Naas

Bike riding, shopping the historical district, ice cream at the fudge shop, lunch at Crane Cottage, walks on the beach.

Missy Smith Mallick

three wheeled bike ride all over the island!

Janelle Will

I’ve only been once but we loved the driftwood beach! Also the Turtle Center and we did a nest excavation that was amazing! I’d like to do a turtle patrol or hatchling walk next time!

Lisa Kay Tatum Knight

shark fishing!

Michael Bagwell

Each year we take a bike ride around the entire island. It’s a family tradition we call the “ultimate”

Stephanie Derrick

Walk on Driftwood Beach, especially at dusk, walk out on the sandbar, and drive around at night looking for deer.

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Rande Anmuth Simpson

riding around the island on a red bug

Kim Parks

Bird/nature watching

Pat Charland

I love that I can do absolutely NOTHING..:-) best place to relax at the ocean and read a good book. My favorite thing. Sleep late, eat late….no clocks at all.

Michele D’Andrea- Dicus

I love Geocaching, I love taking my dog on the beach and swimming with him in the ocean, I love summer wave, and the think I love the most of all is the Turtle hospital ..

Mary Elizabeth Burdette

wow, what we look forward to the most is the slow pace!! My favs are shrimp at the Rah Bar, visiting the shops in the village (love the IGA!), walking on the south beach, reading the day away in a beach chair, and the fifth is my husbands choice - fishing! We have been going to Jekyll for many years and I love the fact that we can pack the car at the last minute and always know what we are going to find when we get there! I do hope that will remain the same for the most part!

Creighton Dukes

I love the Dolphin Tours and then lunch at the Rah Bar! The Partyboat fishing at the wharf ain’t bad either!

Lynne Mulligan

Running on the beach, climbing amoung the trees at Driftwood Beach, eating at Latitude, exploring the shops, watching the dolphins

Becky Reese Rzepka

We have been going for many years and have our traditions that we must do each visit: Bike riding is our top favorite…all over the island!, Summer waves, Ice cream at the Sweet/Fudge shop near Jekyll Club, the Playground (and in the past few years, getting a pizza at Red Bug pizza while there) and minuture golf! There are so many things we LOVE to do there but those are our top five…well and of course the beach!! I can’t wait to go back in May!!!

Phil UpChurch

My wife and I love Driftwood Beach. So rare to find such a magnificent, unspoiled beach.

Robert Bradberry

We have been going to Jekyll since 1966 and still look forward to a return vacation. We love bike riding around the island, walking on south beach, eating lunch at the Jekyll Hotel (arriving by bike), walking through the marsh (including Driftwood Beach, and driving down to the ferry and going over to Cumberland Island.

Chris Moncus

My favorite thing to do on Jekyll Island is photography. But I guess you knew that.

Andrea Wade

Our family loves to just walk around the historic area; shop at all the shops; eat at the Crane (when its not booked to the hilt!); wandering through the historic areas and trying to discover neat little areas I haven’t seen before; and lastly, the peace and quiet and beauty of the area.

Lisa M. Furman

Having shrimp and dungeness crab at the Rah Bar, picnicing and spending the day at St. Andrews, the South Beach picnic area, fishing, the Tidelands 4H Center, checking out the marinas, love the reduce, reuse, recycle concept!! Looking forward to visiting the book store at the Infirmary, the Horton House, and The Sea Turtle Center. This is now my family’s FAVORITE place to go!!!!

Jason Baine Thompson

Rah Bar and crusing around in the little electric cars. My 3 year old gets a kick out it. JBT

Donna Willerson Foster

horse back riding……..the carriage ride..at night with all the light.walking the beach..eating low country boil @ sea rays..
nice and peacefull relaxing ……

Jeannie Reeves

I have many favorites.. I try to take all my clients to the historical area to photograph their family portraits… It is just so beautiful there.. the green grasses, the flowers, the building and the pebble and shell walkways are awesome… The beaches are nice too.. Me and my husbands last date night we sat on the beach at Driftwood beach.. Awesome! My kids love Summer waves that is for sure.. I want to some day do some horse back riding on the beach.

Warren Low

Been to Jekyll Island twice now from England and we love it, its a beautiful place. We especially love going round the historial area and imagining how it must have been when all the cottages were lived in. Jekyll is a little bit of unspoilt paradise. Its amazing that more people dont know about it but maybe thats part of the appeal ….

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The Georgia Sea Turtle Center staff and volunteers invite all turtle enthusiasts to join in some non-scary Turtleween fun! Come dressed in your Halloween costume and receive $1 off admission to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center! There will be arts and crafts, fun turtle-ish programs, and of course, you can visit our sea turtle patients! CALL US AT 912-635-4444

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Check out these great photos our Facebook fans have posted as part of our Are We There Yet Promotion! Book your vacation on Jekyll Island, sign up to tell us about your trip and send us photos, and get 2 Escape! Passes.

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The Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island will release two rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtles, Snowball and Blizzard, off the coast of Tybee Island, GA on Saturday, April 25. The release will be held in conjunction with the 5th Annual Tybee Turtle Trot hosted by the Tybee Island Marine Science Center.

Both Snowball and Blizzard were part of a cold stunning event off the North Carolina coast. Cold-stunned sea turtles become comatose due of a sudden drop in their environmental water temperature, called cold-stunning. Sea turtles, like other reptiles, are ectothermic, or “cold blooded”. For this reason, all of their bodily functions shut down when water temperatures fall below 50° F. They often also contract secondary problems such as fungal pneumonia and bone infections. Snowball and Blizzard arrived at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island on November 26, 2008 and were slowly warmed, re-nourished, and treated with antibiotics and other medications. Now back to a healthy condition, the turtles are ready for release back into the ocean.

The public is invited to attend and observe the release which is set for 10:00 AM near the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. For more information on the release and the Tybee Turtle Trot event visit tybeeturtletrot.net. For more information on the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island visit georgiaseaturtlecenter.org or jekyllisland.com.

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Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW), flew 30 students from Hendrix Drive Elementary School in Forest Park, Ga., to visit Santa Claus on Jekyll Island, Ga. The students departed Atlanta aboard a 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 regional jet – dubbed “Santa’s Special Sleigh” – and returned before the end of the school day. 

The students were chosen to fly aboard “Santa’s Special Sleigh” as a reward for excelling in Hendrix Drive Elementary School’s reading program. Each year more than two hundred students compete for a seat on Santa’s Special Sleigh by using Accelerated Reader (AR), a computerized reading program that tests the student’s reading comprehension.

ASA is a partner with Hendrix Drive Elementary School through Clayton County’s “Adopt-A-School” program. This is the sixth year that Santa’s Special Sleigh will take flight.

 “For many of these children Santa’s Special Sleigh is their first opportunity to experience the excitement of flying,” said Lisa Walker, vice-president – Operational Support. ”They have worked hard to excel in their reading and ASA is proud to be part of rewarding their accomplishments.”

According to Nancy Said, principal at Hendrix Drive Elementary School, the possibility of traveling on “Santa’s Special Sleigh” motivates the students to participate in reading. “Each year our students begin the school year knowing they each have the opportunity to travel on ‘Santa’s Special Sleigh’ based on their commitment to reading outside of the normal school day. The students truly enjoy this trip as it is the first flight experience for many of them,” she said.

After arriving at the Brunswick Golden Isles Airport, the students visited The Georgia Sea Turtle Center where they explored the Center’s sea turtle exhibits and enjoyed learning about Georgia’s unique ecosystem. After the center tour, the students traveled to the Jekyll Island Convention Center to make holiday crafts, enjoyed lunch and took pictures with Santa before departing for home on Santa’s Special Sleigh.

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What: 

“Becoming a Firewise Community” –Educational seminars and discussions hosted by the Jekyll Island Authority, the Georgia Forestry Commission, and the Jekyll Island Garden Club on how to be a firewise citizen.  Speakers will cover topics such as firewise assessment procedures and firewise landscaping. The event is free and open to the public.

When:

December 2 – 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM

December 3 – 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Where:

Upstairs Morgan’s Grill at the Jekyll Island Golf Clubhouse

Agenda:

December 2 (Tuesday afternoon)

3:00 PM: Sign in

3:10 PM: Welcome- Sharon Davidson, Jekyll Island Garden Club President

3:20 PM: Introduction to Firewise- Gayle Slauson, GFC Firewise Specialist

3:40 PM: Firewise Assessment Procedure- Mark McClellan, GFC Chief Ranger

4:20 PM: Firewise Landscaping on the Coast- Christa Frangiamore, JIA Conservation Manager

4: 40 PM: Discussion

5:00 PM: Adjourn

December 3 (Wednesday morning- coffee served)

9:30 AM: Orientation- Jason Richardson, JIA Director of Public Safety

10:00 AM: Field Assessments- Gayle Slauson & Mark McClellan

11:15 AM: Discussion and Next Steps

 12:00 PM- Adjourn

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Master storyteller Milbre Burch of Columbia, Missouri, performs a concert of her finest stories for this event that begins at 7:30 p.m: “A Haunting Good Night - Scary Stories for Adults.” This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the nation’s most distinguished tellers.

An internationally known storyteller, award-winning recording artist, published poet and writer, and respected teacher of her craft, Burch is a storyteller in every sense of the word. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in February in the category, “Spoken Word for Children.”

Ms. Burch has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival numerous times and received a “Storytelling Oscar,” the Circle of Excellence Award, from the National Storytelling Network in 1999.  In addition she has been featured at spoken word and theatre festivals across the nation and in twelve European cities.

Ms. Burch has performed with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York, the Music Center on Tour, the Performing Tree and the University of Phoenix in California.  In addition she has been a teaching artist for the National Conversations Project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Her work in designing and implementing a now-ten-year-old storytelling residency at the Walden School in Pasadena, California, has been lauded as a national model at education conferences across the country.

Following her performance at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel is a dessert reception where the audience may meet the artist.

October 31st, 7:30 p.m., The Jekyll Island Club Hotel

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Brad Richter’s guitar concert at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel promises to be an exciting, memorable concert experience and a first for audiences in this part of the country. Recognized as one of the leading guitarists and guitar composers of the 21st Century, he has brought new life to the guitar repertoire with a freshness and unaffectedness that transcend preconceived genres.

Throughout North America and Europe, Brad has performed as a soloist, with renowned chamber ensembles and in duos with artists such as Grammy winning cellist, David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet. His performances and compositions are frequently heard on NPR and PBS stations around the United States, and he has also written and performed the score for the Emmy award winning PBS television series, The Desert Speaks. He as appeared at the Guitar Festival of Great Britain, the London International Guitar Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival among others. He currently teaches at the University of Arizona. The rugged beauty of the American Southwest continues to be a source of inspiration for much of his music.

October 28, 8 p.m.

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