Please do not tease or molest these animals or any other wildlife. Look for small gray boxes mounted on the walls. Push the button on the box to hear the recorded message. Along the park trails you can see the variety of plant and animal life on the island. A short distance from the fort is a monument to John Wesley, founder of Methodism, who landed in America in 1736 at Cockspur.
Most people come for the fort.
But Fort Pulaski National Monument's 5,365 acres includes some of the most pristine and scenic marshland on the Georgia coast. Cockspur Island, the fort's pad, was originally a series of small hummocks surrounded by salt marsh. It is now mostly dry land because dredged materials have been deposited outside the dikes around the fort. McQueens Island, however, is mostly virgin salt marsh. Here you can see luxuriant, semi-tropical plants intermixed with those of the temperate and desert zones Here too are large populations of resident and migrant birds.