St. Simons Island

Saint Simons as listed in the travel pages has been misrepresented. What they describe may reflect what the island was like forty yesrs ago. The island has become an overgrown city. The traffic will rival anything a big city has. People are rude and could care less about the enviroment. All of the new residents came looking for that “bit of heaven” and have done nothing but contribute to the destruction of what was once an enviromental treasure. Since most of the Georgia coast has been protected this island has become the sacrificial lamb of the developers. The place is infested with skalawags from southern cities, yankee trash and carpitbaggers. They each have had a part in the destruction of traditional island communities. It is funny that so many new developments on the island are gated. It must be a way of protecting heaven. One must wonder what they are keeping out. So when you visit try to imagine what the island must have been like when kids never wore shoes and the pier was wood. By the way the light turned so you can go…beep beep.

St Simons is beautiful. Lots of shops, breath taking views, you can charter a fishing boat or stroll the beaches and take in all the historic places. its a great place to visit and i am glad that i live here

I am crazy about islands.

I went here only one time, played in the water until fishermen reeled in a hammerhead, jellyfish and a few stingrays. Had to go then!

I vacation here every year on spring break. We rent a cottage called Fuller Breeze usually, although this year we had a house with a pool on Live Oak Lane. The trees, the beach, the hanging moss, the southern hospitality; it’s all so great. This is one of my favorite places on earth; they will develop and develop and develop and it will never lose that quaint Georgia charm.

Listed as a vacation destination in The Official Preppy Handbook, the St. Simons has been a once or twice yearly thing for my family for generations before I entered the picture.

King and Prince Hotel is historic and beautiful, shopping on the pier is excellent and Benny’s Red Barn for dinner would never be a mistake.

Very casual, old-school beach atmosphere made better by Spanish moss-laden live oaks all around. The Atlantic is cold and austere, but I don’t think is worth skipping out on.

A whole bunch of Australians landed in St. Simons for a week to see our mate getting hitched to a local lass.

We had fun. Hope the local’s enjoyed having us there?

My parents spend part of their winters there. It’s lovely and pretty unspoiled… not overdeveloped or at all ticky-tacky, like many vacation destinations are. There is a large year-round population on the island, so it feels more like a community than a tourist town. It’s beautiful!

last time i went here, bush and the other G8 wouldn’t let me on the road! luckily, i had some friends, and we got around all that. some of them went to jail tho. Don’t get put in jail in this county.

lovely beaches, a lovely town for a bike ride. thanks to the folks that fought to make the beaches public.

i remember searching for sand dollars on the beach there as a tiny child. now i want to take my daughter there.