Downriver-most point on Jamestown Island. The Jamestown settlement is a few miles upriver

This point is at the end of a short walking path of the loop road around the island. I found this a great place to walk around and take pictures (of the same things each time :) ).

This is the only formal hiking path on te island ... but I stumbled over a few things wandering through the woods. It's so overgrown though, there's barely enough room for the mosquitos between the trees and vines.

Sometime I'll have to tell of the time some "concerned citizens" reported me to a ranger for carrying a rifle. After very little confusion, the ranger determined my tripod was not a rifle and let me go.

I imagine "concerned citizen" went home happy having done his "civic duty".

But that's a story for a different time.

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