One of my favorite stops along the US East coast hands down is Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia.

Cumberland Island sits on the border between Florida and Georgia and most of the island is run by the US Park Service and the whole place is full of history, unique ecology, and of course the wild horses.

There are two dinghy docks on the island and that pretty much corresponds with the two popular anchorages. We typically (always) anchor off the southern dinghy dock for a couple of reasons.

The biggest reason is that it’s usually less crowded and it’s closer to the Carnegie ruins and where the horses hang out.

This fall on our way south we were able to spend two weeks at anchor the first two weeks in December. This worked out amazingly well.

The only downside was that the dinghy docks had been damaged in a recent hurricane and were closed so we had to beach the dinghy in what turned out to be a muddy mess at anything other than high tide which filled the dinghy with mud and more than once had us all covered in sticky mud up to our knees.

Still worth it though. After our two weeks in Charleston at the dock it was good to have no where to spend any money and to have some quiet and space.

We did find our way to shore most days and on those days we’d often break up and go for individual hikes along the trails, which almost always ended up at the endless beach that runs along the ocean side of the island.

Simply an amazing spot that I love staying at and look forward to each year.