Georgia Roadtrip Day 7-8...Tybee Island

Day 7
Friday, December 6, 2019

    The day began as is generally does on Tybee Island, with the sunrise.

     After breakfast, it was simply a walk up the beach...

     That barge in the distance is part of the multi-million dollar expansion of Savannah's ports and shipping lanes.  They're dredging the shipping lanes from forty-two to forty-seven feet, as well as widening the current channel.  When the project is completed, it will have deepened forty miles of shipping lanes.
     The weird thing about the walk up the beach, there were very few birds.

     I've been to Tybee Island many times.  I do believe this was my first military flyover.

 
     And before long, the afternoon waned and it was time to find a spot for sunset...

    By the time I worked my way back to the motel, I will admit, I was just spent.  A nasty cold had crept up on me the day before and I was just done.  I really wasn't thinking food, but knew I should eat...something.
    So, I ditched the camera gear in the room and walked up to a place called Sting Rays.  Two police cars and an ambulance were blocking the main road, lights flashing.  With no sense of urgency on display from the police officers and EMT's, I asked what was up.  The Christmas Parade was just starting and perhaps twenty minutes away.  In hindsight, I should have gone back for the big camera.  Instead, I had a really light dinner and joined the crowd afterwards.
    The camera in the phone does just fine in daylight, but not that well trying to shoot a parade at night.

Day 8
Saturday December 7

    The only thing on tap today was the drive home.  But first...

     Not a bad way to burn the last few PTO days, eh?

Dave
12/2019


PS: This may sound a little weird coming from me, but I have absolutely nothing planned or booked in the near future.  I've had a few spots on the back burner for a while and a really good friend recently reminded me I haven't been up to New England in quite some time, either.  So, who knows what 2020 will bring.  All I do know is, I'm ready to get out in it.