Wednesday we caught the 11:45 ferry out of St. Mary's to Cumberland Island. We spent the afternoon walking to and around the Dungeness ruins and other buildings that still stand near the southern end of the island. There were many encounters with the feral horses, including two times along the walking trails. When that happened, we had a momentary standoff and then the horses went on their way around us, not getting too close, and not looking at us. It was delightful to picnic under some shade trees near the Dungeness mansion ruins, surrounded by horses feeding on the lawn.
There was not enough time to head north to visit the Plum Orchard mansion this trip, but we didn't want to leave Sadie for 12 hours, which that would have required. It was an hour drive to St Mary's and ferry tickets had to be picked up at least 20 minutes before departure, so the 9 am ferry would have meant leaving the RV at 7:30 am instead of 10:15 am. We still caught the last ferry back at 4:45 pm, and were back at the car 535pm, home to Sadie before 7 pm. It was still a long day, but Sadie handled it fine being left for that long.
