Water Lovers Embrace Coastal Georgia Attractions
Published Aug 21, 2008
Georgia has a mere 100 miles of coastline, and promoting it as a world-class fishing destination is Mark Noble’s mission.
True, Georgia’s coast is a fraction of neighbor Florida’s 1,200 miles, but Georgia has more liberal catch limits on many species.
“Georgia has such a short coastline that it never got any notoriety for being a sport-fishing destination,” says Noble, president and founder of the Golden Isles Charter Fishing Association. “We knew that if we wanted to stay in the business we needed to change the perception.”
On the coastal mainland and barrier islands – St. Simons, Sea, Little St. Simons and Jekyll – visitors can work, rent a kayak, go on a dolphin watch, go birding, learn to scuba or take a charter dive.
Bill Tipton, executive director of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau, has two favorite water pastimes. His “energetic thing” is to kayak along tidal creeks and the beaches between islands. For a more laid-back excursion, he hops aboard The Lady Jane, a 60-foot steel-hulled shrimp boat, for a two-hour tour that offers a glimpse of a shrimper’s life and a taste of the catch.
The bureau has collected the options at its Web site, www.comecoastawhile.com, which also includes links to attractions and information about booking fishing charters.
“You name it, we have it,” says Len Jordan, president of the Savannah Marine Dealers Association.
Story by Pam Coyle
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