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DAILY PHOTO: Spanish Moss Draped Tree, Fort Federica
DAILY PHOTO: Sapelo Island Lighthouse
DAILY PHOTO: Mossy Tree
DAILY PHOTO: Jekyll Island Club Hotel
DAILY PHOTO: Lighthouses of the Golden Isles
DAILY PHOTO: Low Tide
DAILY PHOTO: Shells and Skulls
This was taken in a classroom on Sapelo Island that is used to educate field trip children about marine life. Less than 100 people live on Sapelo in a community called Hog Hammock. The children living on the island ferry to school on the mainland every morning.
DAILY PHOTO: Jekyll Island Live Oak
There’s nothing that creepifies a place more than live oaks and Spanish moss. Live oak is a tree species whose limbs stretch out impossibly far, like serpents or gnarled grasping fingers. Spanish moss is the shaggy vegetation that drapes down from the limbs. It isn’t actually a moss. The two grow together throughout much of the coastal Southeast.