We are island hopping our way through Georgia. We visited
Jekyll Island
and St Simons Island and camped at Blythe
Island and now Skidaway Island.
These islands are primarily surrounded by marshes.
We came to Skidaway
Island State
Park to hike the trails under the live oak
hammock through palmettos – the typical foliage of these islands – and look for
a few letterboxes. The skies looked a little threatening, but we hit the
trails.
The little bridge in this picture went over what looked like
a trench and mound. We found out that these were “earthworks,” an early Civil
War defense dug out by slaves.
We thought this tree was pretty cool.
We hoped to get to the observation tower, but Hurricane
Matthew damage prevented that.
It’s probably hard to spot in this picture, but the boardwalk that should run from the sign to the tower is now aimed to the left and there is a downed tree blocking the tower. Rain drops hurried us back to our trailer.
On a side note, we went to the grocery store to buy granola
- Barbara's breakfast food. Back in Massachusetts,
Market Basket had a whole section for granola. In Florida we would find only one or two types,
but there was no granola in the Brunswick Georgia Winn Dixie. But they did have
grits.
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| lots of grits |
We’d never seen so many varieties!
campground:
Skidaway Island
State Park, 80 miles, 1h 34min from Blythe Island
Regional Park
