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Author: Phyllis_Russell_Franklin, Contributing Editor
| In 2002 a group of art friends met at St. Simons Island, Georgia to go on a plein air adventure. I'd like to share that adventure with you and take you on a tour of parts of the island. Follow me and watch the adventure unfold.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walking down the pathways on St. Simons Island, Georgia makes ones mind wander back to the time when the island was just beginning to feel the tread of human feet from across the ocean. How hard it must have been for anyone to begin a new life on an island of the new world called America. Even today the intense heat, humidity, and bugs are much to contend with, but you soon overlook that because the island calls deep into your soul. It just can't get any better than living on an island. Forget the traffic, forget you job, forget your worries, let the island cradle you in its beauty and take your mind to that peaceful place we all long for in our dreams. |  |
| St. Simons Island was inhabited by Native Americans of the Muskogean tribes several thousand years ago. During the 1500's monks were sent from Spain to colonize and convert the region, and later England claimed the islands under James Oglethorpe, who planted settlements in Savannah and Darien, then south to the western shore of St. Simons where he built the fort and town of Frederica. |
 | Today you can see all kinds of traces of man on the island, but that does not take away from the beauty, for you can feel the pleasure that others have found while looking out over the beautiful golden isles filled with every color in the rainbow. It almost takes your breath away when you see it for the first time, and everytime after that, most say. |
 | When the early settlers came on the island, they found fish and all types of game. The waters on St. Simons Island are a mix of salt and fresh waters so there are many different types of fish out there as well as different types of grasses, trees and plants. To the east you find the Atlantic ocean and within the island you find many tidal creeks. To the west of the island flows the brackish waters of Fredrica River. |
| Cannon's Point
Parts of plantations can be found all over the island. This is at Cannon's Point which was the first landing point for settlers on the island. |  |
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