UPDATE: This event has been rescheduled to 4/21. The earlier date was cancelled due to weather.

Whitecap SUP’s GOLDEN ISLES “Roun’ da Island Tour” SERIES

The Sea Island Tour is an SUP excursion of 17 miles around beautiful Sea Island, GA.

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT an official Surfrider Foundation event. We are posting this event since it may be of interest to our members. RSVP ON THE WHITECAP FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE.  You can also post a comment below or use the Surfrider Contact page.

The  trip is about 6 to 7 hours duration. It’s and adventure, an accomplishment, a challenge perhaps. Get in at the beginning of the whole Golden Isles Roun’ da Island Series! This is Tour #1, the shortest of the Golden Isles Series — accessible to most anyone!!. Leave a comment below if you want to travel from Atlanta with our group.

View Roun’ da Island Tour — Sea Island — 15 miles in a larger map

Details from White Cap:
The route begins with a launch from in front of the East Beach Surf Sailors boatyard on St Simons (at the Coastguard Station), then we paddle northward up the front of Sea island, turning west into the mouth of the Hampton River to Village Creek where we turn south and continue around the backside of Sea island, eventually landing back at our original starting point on East Beach of St Simons at the Surf Sailors boatyard.

This is NOT a race. Heck, it ain’t even a rush. We take our time, observe, and appreciate where we are along the way. Rest, refreshment, and lunch stops are in the scheduled estimated total time. It’s fun…and a way to see your world in a different way. (Maybe it’s time to see yourself in a different way, huh?) When we get back, it’s glory time at a cook out in the Surf Sailors lovely boat yard! Sit down—YES! — get a tall drink, talk about the day with your brothas and sistas. Sound like something you want to be a part of! You ain’t got but this one life. Do it.

• Cost is $30 (covers the tee-shirt, snacks, gas and tip for the on-call boat support, food for the after-cookout)
• Displacement hull SUP’s (touring and race boards) are NOT required; but bigger, floaty boards are a good idea if it’s a planning hull.
• Whitecap may be able to provide you a board, if needed. Call us early.
• We will have boat support, not accompanying us but on-call, in case of emergency or threatening weather.
• There are “bail out” points at the 5 mile and 12 mile point, if you feel it necessary to abandon the tour.

This event is the re-launching – a new beginning, if you will, of the entire GOLDEN ISLES “Roun’ da Island” Series. Future tours, taking place over the next couple of years, will include one each of the Golden Isles. After this Spring’s Sea Island Tour of 17 miles, we will do Jekyll Island at 18 miles, then Little St Simons at 26 miles, then St Simons Island at 36 miles, and concluding with the big kahuna of Golden Isles – Cumberland at 45.6 miles. The next tour in the Series, after Sea Island, may possibly be later in 2012 or it may be in early 2013. We’ll keep you informed, for sure. Be a part of “the big picture”, as they say – do the whole Series, baby!