The weather is a little better today, it's still cool, but at least the sun is shinning. We headed out of Skidaway Island State Park with two stops in mind. One at the island post office to mail some birthday cards and check on getting general delivery mail there, and the other stop is the tourist information center. We decided to take Kallie along for the ride.
We mailed our cards and found out the island post office can not accept general delivery mail. Then we headed to the tourist information center. Now, this is not your normal tourist information center! It is downtown Savannah in an old train depot that has been restored and converted into a museum, tourist center and restaurant where you can eat in a rail car. It is also the starting place for the trolley tours of downtown. The trolley tours are about 90 minutes long and make 16 stops throughout the city where you can get off and walk around and pick up another trolley and go to the next stop. They are also pet friendly and Kallie got to take her very first trolley ride. She was a very good girl and took in all of the sights and sounds of Savannah. I think she enjoyed the trip, but she was trying to run at full speed when is was time to get off!
After the trolley ride, we walked a couple of blocks and took some pictures.
This is the deport/museum/visitor's center. When it was a depot, the trains would pull into this long building to load and unload passengers.
This is the restaurant with the dinning car on the left.
Here's some of the downtown area.
Many of the squares had fountains like this one.
Here's an old house downtown with some youngsters in front!
We are standing in front of James Edward Oglethorpe 1696-1785. He lived to be 89 years old which back in that time was the exception. But, he was a busy man in those 89 years. He founded the colony of Georgia in 1732 and the city of Savannah. He was also a soldier and philanthropist.
By now it is mid afternoon and we hadn't eaten lunch so we headed back home to fix a bite to eat. Then we walked part of the Big Ferry Trail at our campground. Since we started on this trail later in the afternoon, we only walked two miles of the 3 mile trail. Here's what we saw.
We headed up the observation deck to take some pictures.
This is the Intercoastal Waterway.
You can see the marsh land between us and the Intercoastal.
We walked another mile through the forest. I had one eye on the ground looking for alligators and snakes, the other eye looking in the trees for any overhead snakes. It's hard to walk down a path when you can't watch where you're walking. With Kallie in the lead, I had nothing to worry about. No... I am not afraid of snakes! What made you think that? Ha! More fun tomorrow!
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