St. Simons Island Adventure

You can sit at the pool area of the King and Prince Resort and watch the waves crash up against the rocks on the edge of the patio area.  Then, give it a few hours and you can actually walk several hundred feet to the waterline, swim a hundred feet or so to a sand bar, then walk across the sandbar to water on the other side. 

We enjoyed doing this every day we were there during a recent visit to the coast.

We also enjoyed it when the water was at high tide and we could stand on the steps leading down to the beach and throw out a crab trap.  It’s so easy a couple of kids showed us how it’s done!  One afternoon, when we were sitting on the beach playing in the shallow water we watched them catch crab after crab, dumping them into their bucket.  They were catching their dinner.  I promised my girls we would do the same the next day, so we picked up the trap at the local gas station for less than $12 and grabbed a chicken leg from the fabulous Chef Jeff at King and Prince.  We had a blast throwing the net out like a Frisbee into the water (my older daughter was a natural at this)…then my youngest would count to 60 and we’d pull up the trap.  Just about every single time we’d pull it up with at least one crab, sometimes two, nibbling on that chicken leg.  We were just catching and releasing but we could have had one yummy meal that night if we had planned to stay that evening, but we were supposed to head home and I wasn’t planning on bring the crabs in the car with me.

We also took in the sights around St. Simons, including climbing the lighthouse, taking the ghost tour on the trolley and  walking around the grounds of the historic Christ Church.

We could have planned this trip for months and wouldn’t have had as much fun as we did just by winging it.   Maybe every city isn’t designed for such easy-going enjoyment, but St. Simons was simply perfect for us.