WIND, SAND AND SUN!!

Atlanta and Tybee Island, Georgia, March/April 2019 - Part 3

For this post I am going to let photographs of our stay at Tybee tell the tale with a few comments on each one. The weather was very variable as you will see, but definitely not as cold as it is here in mid-winter New Zealand.

Our first full day was very windy but the weather did improve, the clouds clearing away by the end of our second day and we then had two good, warm, sunny days. So, I shall let the pictures do the talking as they may be worth a thousand words??!

Laughing Gull - Their cry does sound just like a raucous laugh

Black Skimmers backs to the wind

Wind sculpting the sand on Tybee Beach

The day after the windy beach afternoon we were off to Savannah for a look round...

Savannah's Waving Girl, Florence Martus - read about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Martus

Still a bit chilly here!!

Despite the chilly day in Savannah, by the time we got back to Tybee the weather had cleared and we had a magnificent sunset.

Tybee Sunset

The following day, it was North across the State border to Charleston, South Carolina. They are still very proud here of their status as the first state to secede from the Union. The siege of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour was the first action of the American Civil War. 

The weather was fine and quite warm, which made for a great day out.

One for the naval warfare and aviation geeks: USS Yorktown (CV-10), now a floating museum. Sadly, there was no time for a look around (the girls weren't that keen, anyway, surprise, surprise!). This is not the original Yorktown (CV-5) which was sunk at the Battle of Midway, but an Essex Class carrier which was renamed during construction after the sinking of the original. It survived WWII and went on to serve in Korea and Vietnam.

The spirit of the Confederacy still runs deep here

Fort Sumter - where the war began...

Not a real paddle steamer, but kind of looks the part

We met this real character, Molly on the Charleston waterfront who told us the Arthur J Ravenel Bridge in the background is known as the "Bra Bridge" (for obvious reasons!!).

On that note, I think I shall close this set of posts as I have been very slow at getting it together, and we are just about to embark on our next trip - Alaska, here we come!! Watch this space, as they say.