An hour or so at sunrise on Jekyll’s Driftwood Beach was a *must-do* for me, despite not really wanting to drag myself from bed in the pre-dawn darkness at the start of what would be a full day of kayaking and then later driving clear across the state of Georgia to start the trip home.<\/p>\n
But I’d seen pictures and had to be there with my own camera.<\/p>\n
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The dawn was disappointingly cloudy and the horizon dotted with shrimp boats… not what I’d hoped for.<\/p>\n
I wandered among the jumbled boneyard of oaks and pines, waiting. I got lost with the fiddler crabs scuttling between the maze-like tangles of trunks and branches. I searched for perfect shells and sand dollars. I came upon a juvenile Bald Eagle, perched in a dead snag, awaiting the clear dawn’s light with me and felt privileged for its company.<\/p>\n
Finally, the sun made its appearance above the clouds and I found that I liked it best between these silhouetted and wind bowed oaks.<\/p>\n
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