Little St. Simons Island and Sea Island, Georgia, from the air

This was taken from a Southwest Airline flight heading north out of Jacksonville up the coast for BWI. Little St. Simons is the island above the Hampton River at the top. It is privately owned by a partnership or LLC in which former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry (Hank) Paulson is a principal investor, and houses a small (30-some guests) and semi-rustic inn. There isn't an inch of asphalt or paved road anywhere on the island, and only a few buildings. The sole way to get there is by boat. You go there for a couple of days of exposure to a pristine sea island almost totally untouched by development, while still affording you comfortable (not luxurious) accommodations, excellent food, and a committed, attentive staff. I've also posted an album on Flickr devoted to this place if you want to see it from ground level:

www.flickr.com/photos/27685985@N03/albums/721576327315166...

Sea Island, home of the elite Cloisters Resort, is the long stretch of white beach with a thin belt of trees behind it before you get to the marshes that separate it from St. Simons Island. It is lined with expensive, sometimes showcase homes of the very wealthy. It hosted the G-8 international economic conference back around 2008, I believe -- aside from being lovely, it is attractive from a security standpoint, as it is relatively easy to seal off. The African sequences of the 1970's television mini-series "Roots" were filmed in what was then undeveloped land on the north end of Sea Island.

Taken in: United States / Georgia / St. Simons (show map)

Taken on: January 6, 2015

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Camera: Motorola DROID BIONIC, f/2.4, 1/509 sec, 4.6mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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