Last month Aaron and I attended his SouthEastern Palm Nerd Society meeting in St. Mary's, Georgia. Okay, its not really called that but probably should be. Just kidding (kind of). The people are so friendly and it attracts the most diverse group of which we were by far the youngest. These people really love their plants so Aaron fits in quite well. It usually starts off with a meeting and plant auction. I took this time to catch up with Lindsay on cell phone but Aaron participated. After the meeting we took a ferry to Cumberland Island to take a beach hike and check out the plant life out there. It was a lot of fun. Cumberland Island was home to the Carnegie Family at one time before it was devastated in a fire years ago. It is a fairly large island - 17 miles across or so and is really lovely. We dodged jelly fish corpses on the beach hike and took a tour through a very Alice -in -Wonderland- like area filled with hallucinogenic coastal oak trees that were quite a trip. The island is also home to many wild Spanish ponies that have been there for a very long time. They are fairly small and will come quite close to you. You can actually camp on the island. We tried to do this but were far too late to get a spot. Instead Aaron tried to get us a spot in a park that sounded fine on the phone but turned out to be a trailer park with a boarded up house that was a dead ringer for the one on Psycho. It also had a biker bar. The 150 cats in residence there seemed to be very happy but we chose other digs.
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