Ossabaw Island
SOLD OUT Super Museum Sunday Ossabaw Trip
Sunday February 9, 2025
Enjoy a day trip, free of admission, with only a $55 boat fee. Boat transportation by Bull River Cruises and Mike Neal. Your trip will consist of a walking tour of the historic north end of Ossabaw Island. The boat departs at 12:00 pm from the Rodney J. Hall Boat Ramp on Diamond causeway. The boat will return by 4:30 pm. Space is limited to 32 participants. You will receive a confirmation email the week of the event with all of the details.
Tour of Ossabaw Island’s North End
Saturday March 29, 2025 Click Here to Register
Saturday November 9, 2024 Click Here to Register
Travel by pontoon boat with Captain Mike Neal of Bull River Cruises to the island’s North End for an interpretive tour that includes ecology and history, plus time on your own to explore or sit and rock on the Club House front porch.
Ossabaw Heritage Day
Saturday, May 10, 2025
A day trip to Ossabaw for descendants of people with connections to the island from 1760 – 1980. If your ancestors were tenant farmers, land owners, Torrey family employees, Freedmen, enslaved people, hunting guides, cattlemen, or timbermen? Were you a member of the Ossabaw Island Project (OIP) or a Genesis member, please join us for a picnic and time together.
Be Creative on Ossabaw
Saturday February 1, 2025, Click here to Register
Saturday May 31, 2025, Click here to Register
Paint, sketch, write, or take photos on Ossabaw Island. Let the island be your muse. After a brief history presentation, you’ll have several hours to wander the North End on your own and experience the island’s inspiring features of marsh vistas, maritime forests, wildlife sightings. Bring your own art supplies.
Dig Ossabaw Island
Date: June 7, 2025
A Hands-On Archaeology Experience
Led by the Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources’ Archaeology Division and Pennsylvania State University, this excavation of a 19th-century plantation site is the tenth year of an archaeological project on Ossabaw Island.
Lift Every Voice: Savannah’s African American History Museums’ Fee-Free Day Trip
Saturday August 9, 2025
This “fee free” morning trip to Ossabaw is a walking tour of the North End plantation site, including three restored tabby cabins built by enslaved Africans as their housing. Learn about Titus, Hercules and Betty in the 1770s; the Bond brothers in the 1850s and 1860s; and the Bond’s descendants, the founders of Pin Point community in the 1880s. After visiting Ossabaw Island travel to the Pin Point Heritage Museum for a tour from an Ossabaw Island descendant.
Turtle hatching Day Trips
Saturday, August 23, 2025 Day Trip
Sunday, August 24, 2025 Day Trip
Accompany Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program interns as they inventory loggerhead turtle nests for eggs and live hatchlings on Ossabaw Island’s South Beach. Depart 8:00 am from Delegal Creek Marina on Skidaway Island, just outside of Savannah. After a 30-minute boat ride across Ossabaw Sound, arrive on Ossabaw Island , then travel by pick up truck to the beach to learn about turtle hatchings. Enjoy a picnic lunch (bring your own lunch) at the pavillion at the south end bone yard beach. Return to the North End as boat departs the island for the mainland at 2:00 pm.
A Hands-On Indigo Dyeing Experience: Ossabaw Island Indigo Day Trips
Saturday September 20, 2025,
Sunday September 21, 2025,
Elizabeth DuBose shares the history of Ossabaw indigo and provides instruction on creating fresh-leaf dye vats and guides participants through the dyeing process.
