Jekyll Island is Georgia's largest and southernmost barrier island.
Crossing St. Andrew Sound
Ship at the mouth of St. Simon Sound
What makes a body of water a "Sound"? I had to look it up.
Seems like a "Sound" is interchangeable with "bay" as most sites agree that both are indentations along an ocean.
Sounds are often larger, deeper and less protected....or so I've read.
However, a channel or strait between two bodies of land is sometimes identified as a Sound.
Very confusing.
There seems to be some some vague guidelines, but what I've learned it what we thought in the first place . . . it's the whim of the map makers.
Sound is an Old English word meaning "to swim" which suggests to me that a person could swim across it. . . . . . . . thanks, we'll stay in the boat!
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