Once you arrive on Raccoon Key, your first stop is the lodge, where you will find the bathrooms, kitchen facilities, and space for entertaining. Adjacent to the lodge is a large deck built over the main fresh water lake, which is a perfect place to relax.
After a short walk or a ride on one of our golf carts, you will find a beautiful beach covered with sea shells. Here, you will also find more birds of different species that you can ever imagine. The view from the Raccoon Key beach is marvelous. Across the St. Andrews Sound to the northeast are stunning views of the south tip of
Bird watching on Raccoon Key can only be considered among the finest found anywhere in the world, with over 200 species recorded. Raccoon Key is a stopping point on the Atlantic Flyway for migratory birds, including for rare species, such as the American oystercatcher,
The Jekyll Wharf Marina also offers Dolphin Tours, Ecological Group Tours, Charter Boat Fishing and Party Boat Fishing.
The Wharf has two restaurants, The Rah Bar and Latitude 31. Enjoy the best service and finest food in the Golden Isles in a casual atmosphere that is uniquely Latitude 31 or enjoy steamed shrimp, oysters and crab legs at the Rah Bar .
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Clapper Rail Hen & Chicks
September 2009
Update: On 5/5/2009 seven birders logged in over 150 species on Raccoon Key.
ECO Tour
Educational Ecological
Boat Tour
Student Group Tour
For information and reservations
on ECO Tours please call 912-635-3152
Click here to see photos of 2010
4H Group Tours
We provide a fun experience combined with ecological education through our ECO Tours. Our experience is unparalleled with over 10 years experience and hundreds of tours conducted. Our program is correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards in science studies.
We are located at the Jekyll Wharf on beautiful Jekyll Island. You will find that our office and Gift Shop has very reasonably priced gifts, beverages, snacks and other items.
Our ECO tours are 75 minutes in length and the cost is only $13.00 for students and $18 for adults. A minimum of 30 passengers or an equivalent payment of 30 passengers is required per group. Each of our boats has a maximum capacity of 40 passengers, are sun covered and equipped with a bathroom. ECO Tours are offered year round. Prices valid through 2010.
Groups are taken out into the coastal marshlands and rivers where it’s calm and safe. For further information, references and reservations please give us a call 912-635-3152
During the tour our crew will discuss different topics on ecology and
environmental issues that impact the coastal estuary. Trawl nets are placed in the water and pulled along the bottom with the boat. Then after a brief instruction, the group becomes participants in the experience by pulling the trawl net into the boat. A bounty of species is generally pulled up with the net and placed into containers. Our staff will give a complete presentation of the species caught, and then an opportunity is given to the group to personally examine the catch before carefully returning it to the water.
We have conducted our ECO tours for thousands of students from school groups, the Jekyll Island 4H Center and Driftwood Learning Center for over 10 years.
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The boat is the classroom
Students learn about our marsh estuary system
