Anyway, this time of year, there are only two ferries per day that go to the island, and I did not want to spend the entire day there waiting for the return ferry, so I decided to take the 1.5 hour boat tour from Fernandina Beach. This is leaving the town with one of the two paper plants in distance.
This is one of the cruise ships from American Cruises that goes up and down the Florida inland passage in Florida.
This is the second paper plant, but this one is north of the town and makes mostly cardboard boxes.
And one of the few remaining shrimp boats.
This is the national park ferry dock. The ferry takes only passengers, not vehicles of any sort, and certainly not motorhomes!
This is the passage into Cumberland Sound. Florida is to the south and Georgia to the north.
One of the wild horses on the island.
And a flock of white pelicans. These birds are much larger than the native brown pelicans and spend part of the year elsewhere, migrating down for the winter.
We were lucky to be taking our tour during low tide and got to see a couple of families of dolphins hunting fish in groups and chasing them to very shallow water where they could not escape easily, making the fish an easy meal. Check out this video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMunISHMHGg&feature=youtu.be
North and west of Cumberland Island, on the mainland of Georgia, is Kings Island Submarine Base. You can occasionally see Naval resupply ships coming in and out of Cumberland Sound past the campground where I was staying. The boat captain told us that when the submarines themselves come in or out, they cannot submerge, so they are accompanied by a lot of military helicopters and security vessels for protection.
Returning to the town of Fernandina Beach.
A couple of brown pelicans waiting for a handout of fish.
I treated myself to lunch at the restaurant shown here, and then headed back to my motorhome which was parked in the marina parking lot.
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