Jekyll Island Self-Guided Lights Tour

On Monday, we stayed on Jekyll Island until after sunset to be able to view the Christmas lights. We had seen many of the decorations on the trees and along the roads during the daytime, so wanted to view them lit up in the evening...

Since we were coming up from the southern end of the island, we joined the "Holly Jolly Jekyll" (https://www.jekyllisland.com/signature-events/holly-jolly-jekyll/) route about midway through the "Entry Trees"...

... heading toward the roundabout.

The "Roundabout Tree"

Beach Village Lights

Some of the Oceanfrout Light Displays

More of the Oceanfront displays

Along Shell Road (we adopted this one as an image of Carl and me!).

Then started the 12 Days of Christmas - The partridge in the pear tree in the foreground, two turtledoves on the left, and 3 french hens near the center further down the road...

... five gold rings followed by 6 geese a-laying,

... some of the maids a-milking...

... and finishing up with the drummers drumming!

An huge assortment of designs hanging from trees over the streets...

... and displayed on the green.

The large live oaks not only had their trunks and branches encircled with lights, but they also had lit-up icicles along the branches!

"The Great Tree" (the website says that there are 45,000+ lights on the Great Tree)

The Jekyll Island Club Resort

Another view of lit up live oak trees...

... and ornaments hanging from the trees over the roads.

It was quite a display! (The lady at the visitor center characterized it as "over the top".) The website indicates that there are over 1,000,000 total light bulbs. We figure that there must be someone on staff who crafts all the individually designed ornaments and decorations -- and they must have a lot of space dedicated to storing it all during the off-season!

We enjoyed our visit to Jekyll Island!