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Beside the Sea

A weekend amid old-world charm.

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JD Breen
Jun 08, 2026
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Miles of sunny beaches are ideal for relaxing, wildlife watching, and biking on St. Simons Island, GA

Sea Island, GA

June 7, 2026

During the warming period of the Pleistocene, sea levels were fifty feet above… and the shoreline eighty feet west of… the current Georgia coast.

Glaciers never covered this state. But their northerly retreat deposited offshore dunes along the south Atlantic coast.

Adjacent to St Simon’s, Sea Island is among the newer buffers shi…

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