Beach Day!

The shop has a couple of people working on getting a new boot (L shaped hose fitting) for our coach turbo charger.  They discovered the problem was the replacement part, which had a defect in its molded seam.

While they searched for a replacement we went to Tybee Island to enjoy the beach.  We were here several years ago for a short visit when we spent a day in Savannah but today we parked at the old Spanish American War Fort Screvens parking lot at North Beach, just outside of Savannah Harbor.

Here we found this old beauty.  A WW2 era ship lane buoy from the Savannah Inlet.

The high today and tomorrow was and will be around 80, and today the wind was only at 3 knots so it was a pleasant day to just relax, read, and picnic.

Few others were out so the beach was quiet until 20 or so middle school students arrived to spend an hour with their biology teacher.  I think they like soaking their pants as they ran screaming through the surf most though.

We watched porpoise, freighters, jets, helicopters, fishing boats and surf till we fell asleep.  Though Mona 

                                   says I was the only one who snored.

I finished the day with a fort and lighthouse walk-about.  The fort was built as two seacoast batteries and went through several generations of large guns. It was  closed at the end of WW 2 but not before it made a name for itself as a diver training center for all service arms in the thirties.

 The blue sign in the left center of the pic to the right says "major storm safety shelter".  The rooms to shelter in were the ammunition bunkers and each have thick iron bar doors on them.  They are also below the category 2 storm surge level. Safe for who?

The lighthouse was rebuilt after the Civil War and is built on the foundation of the destroyed lighthouse which was originally built before the Revolutionary War.

Tomorrow we go into Savannah.  This is the best small town in America for city parks.  Originally designed to have one an easy walk from each several blocks of homes the economic downturn of the post Civil War era meant many of the parks and the pre Civil War (antebellum) homes still exist.

We’ll be sure to take our books along, and let you know if we found any surprises along the way.

-Ken