We headed up the coast to Savannah, Georgia.
Waffle house. We think there may be some kind of ordinance that says you have to have one of these on every block in the south. My bike in front of the remains of an old still at Skidaway Island park outside Savannah Georgia.
The remains of the old still. It was one of 31 that were on this island during prohibition. A view of the salt marsh
The roots here are 3-4 inches tall, I was glad I had my own bike with the shocks and toe clips. Above is Fort Pulaski. It is at the mouth of the Savannah River. It was built right before the civil war by the feds. The confederates took over the fort before it had ever been attacked. It was supposed to be one of the strongest forts ever built, as invincible as the Rocky Mountains. The union brought in new rifled cannons, they had spiral grooves in the barrel and could shoot farther than the conventional cannons and after a 30 hour siege they had broken down one of the walls and were going to blow up the powder magazine, so the confederates surrendered.
The front of the fort, with the drawbridge over the moat. The drawbridge mechanism.
After the union got the fort they built this mound of dirt in front of it, it is the new powder magazines. Here is John walking into the underground passageways and here he is in one of the magazines.
John in the sally port. just past the draw bridge, check out the burly doors. The inside of the fort
John walking down the casements to the cannons, later part of the casements were made into a prison for political prisoners.
More casements and cannons, a ranger dressed up as a confederate soldier firing a musket.
John going up the stairs to the ramparts. This part of the fort burned, the wooden floor is gone, you can see the supports under the floor.
John with a cannon on the rampart.
An old style cannon ball, the new shell for the rifled cannon and a cut away of the rifled cannon showing the spiral. This is a photo of what the side of the fort looked like after the siege.
The union had the fort repaired within 6 weeks of taking it. The redder bricks are the ones they put in. some of the cannon shells are still imbedded in the walls. The arrow points to one.
more damage, these girls took a photo of John wearing his I love Haggis shirt, they made the mistake of asking him what haggis is, so here they are listening to his long explanation.
The model T’s were in the parking lot. The man in yellow is cranking his car to start it. We went to lunch at the crab shack.
John at the crab shack, and eat, drink and be crabby!
This giant gater is parked in the handicap space. . ., Sol C Johnson High school’s team is the Atom smashers!
A street in Savannah with Spanish moss draped live oaks. A skeleton of a 20 foot ground sloth.
a box turtle and Bacon park! We though maybe is was a pig park.
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