Sapelo Island Tours

Overview

Sapelo Island is located five miles offshore from the Georgia Coast. The Island ferry can only be used by employees of the State of Georgia, Island residents and their guests, and tourists escorted by an authorized Island guide.

City: Georgia

Sat 21 Jun

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Starting at $75.00

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Sat 21 Jun

Starting at $75.00

Make a reservation

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What's Included

Guide fee

Additional Info

Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
I have been fully vaccinated for Covid 19 with four shots of the Moderna vaccine. Masks are not required if riding in the enclosed ferry cabin. Outside seating on the top deck is recommended, weather allowing.

What To Expect

Sapelo Island

The half day Sapelo tour includes the beautiful unspoiled Sapelo Beach, the scenic Sapelo Lighthouse, the impressive R.J. Reynolds Mansion, the University of Georgia Marine Institute, and the African American Gullah Geechee Hog Hammock National Historic Area, with a two room school house, two historic churches, and numerous "shotgun" house and new vacation homes.

Sapelo Island

The whole day Sapelo Island tour includes everything seen on the half day tour plus the restored African American Gullah Geechee Raccoon Bluff Church, Blackbeard Island and Creek, the extensive slave cabin tabby ruins and plantation house at Chocolate Plantation, the mysterious 4,500 year old Indian shell ring, the R. J. Reynolds Wildldife Management Area with deer and wild pigs and wild cattle, the Log Landing, Reynolds cotton gin, historic Island store, gracious guest houses, tabby, ruins of Georgia's first mule powered sugar mill, haunted Behavior slave cemetery, still in use, and the Reynolds airfield and hangar.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (6)

2817Traveler

Feb 2022

We are sad to say, we learned more from his website about the history of Sapelo Island than we did on JR's tour. We were on a school bus which was fine. We thought this would be the highlight of our trip to Georgia. We really learned so much more at the Pin Point Museum near Savannah.

Response from Host

Feb 2022

Unfortunately, due to an emergency situation with having to rush my companion to the hospital with heart failure, I was unable to guide the tour myself. I will be glad to give them a free tour if they wish to come back, personally guided. I have collected all of the many books about Sapelo Island's history, as well as of the colorful accounts of R.J. Reynolds' four wives and four divorces!

Bluffton29910

Dec 2021

JR gave an amazing tour. Highly recommended. He knows the island well having lived there his whole life. He is full of info

Tfoutz

Aug 2021

You simply have to take this tour! My guide, Jim Morrison, was a wealth of knowledge! He was just as fascinating as the tour he gave me of Sapalo Island. He will tailor the tour to your interests, and his stories will instantly take you back in time, as you walk amongst the complicated history of what this 10 mile long island holds. Did I mention he had helped saved miles and miles of the fragile Georgia coast line, and survived a plane crash!?! Don’t miss this tour!! I was solo traveling, and now I can’t wait to go back with my kids!