We decided to have our leaking heat exchanger repaired before we left Fernandina so we had the weekend to explore the Cumberland Island national park. This is an interesting place and a fairly well protected anchorage and worth a several day visit. We walked through the water oak forests each day and over to the beach on the ocean side.
Not many shells on the beach but its a great place for long walks along the oceanfront.
There are numerous wild horses that live in the park and wander around the beach and forest trails.
There were more horses over on the ICW side of the island. Rivah was very interested in them until one of the mares loudly whinnied and firmly kicked another horse bothering her. Rivah flattened out and then stayed behind Sue while the horses were about.
Interesting sights - while we were walking the beach the Goodyear Blimp came up the coast and flew right over our heads at about 1000ft.
We had great weather for our stay at Cumberland. The winds were unusually calm and the temperatures were perfect with mostly blue skies. It was a great weekend, then time to move to Tiger Point to get our engine fixed.
