...and I mean Rich!!! The island was purchased by the Jekyll Island Club, which Munsey’s Magazine called “the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world….” For those who represented 1/6 of the world’s wealth at the turn of the century, the Jekyll Island Club became an exclusive retreat. Families with names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Pulitzer, and Baker built the elegant Clubhouse and “cottages” in Victorian architectural styles.

Still surprised my bike fit!

Whadaau expect... It's Georgia!

The Club officially opened its doors in January 1888, Serving the Uber wealthy

The two-story house built from tabby in 1742 stands along N. Riverview Rd. The frame is intact, while the roof, doors, and windows are gone. Tabby was an indigenous material developed along the coast that was formed from crushed oyster shells, lime and water to make a kind of cement. It is featured in several historic sea island structures dating from the antebellum plantation era. The house was occupied by Major William Horton during the British colonial period. He developed Georgia's first brewery (the ruins of which are a few hundred yards down the road). The remains of the house have been meticulously preserved over the past 100 years as an example of coastal Georgia building techniques; it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the state.

Large beautiful bleached driftwood collects here for a photographers dream. Like all "Low Country" beaches, it is muddy rather than sandy.

And a burger. There is a great sandbar at the beach here that seemed to stretch 1/4 mile into the ocean and smattered with people. Would have loved to try it out but just had my cycling shorts. :(