So today we were towed to Brunswick to avoid running our motors. It was a slow trip at about 3 knots.
Cumberland Island National Seashore which is an
undeveloped island where the US Parks own 85% of the land and private home owners who come by boat must bring in all their own facilities. We saw a wild horse grazing there in the wide expanse of green marsh grass.Kings Bay Submarine Base is home to six Trident
class nuclear submarines. We passed through, but saw neither a submarine or any military activity. The water was amazingly glossy and calm for an inlet to the ocean.As we neared Brunswick, George, we cruised under the long suspension bridge named after
Sidney Lanier, a famous poet from Glynn. It’s symmetric cables reflecting sunlight were just visible in the blue sky above. Lanier authored the poem The Marshes of Gynn in the early 1900’s, but for the marshland lover the words are just as wonderful today:GLOOMS of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven
Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,—
Emerald twilights,—
Virginal shy lights,
Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows,
When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades
Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods,
Of the heavenly woods and glades,
Our afternoon was spent on the lift at the Brunswick Marina while we had our propellers changed, including removing a rope we had picked up, and our zinc’s replaced. It was very surprising to me that they let me stay on the boat (this was a first), but really convenient since I had several work calls to make.
After dinner we road our bikes into town to find the famous old Lover’s Oak, which is
documented as being living when the US Constitution was signed. It was a huge tree with multiple trunks perhaps from earlier damage to the core. The guide books suggested that the tree was really over 900 years old and called the Lover’s Tree as at trysting spot for centuries. It was magnificent.
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