2014 In Pictures – My Favorites
Last one!
Tybee Island: Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, where in 1862 during the American Civil War, the Union Army successfully tested a rifled cannon, the success of which rendered brick fortifications obsolete. The fort was also used as a prisoner-of-war camp. The National Monument includes most of Cockspur Island (containing the fort) and all of adjacent McQueens Island.”
–Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument
- Old North Pier
- Also Old North Pier
- If you look in the top bar of the “7” shaped scar, you can see a Union cannonball still embedded in the fort wall.
- Union soldiers playing baseball. This is one of the earliest pictures taken of the “new game” called baseball.
Tybee Island: Day 2 – A Very Beachy Birthday
Sunrise over the beach, The Breakfast Club (OMG good!), Ft. Pulaski National Monument, The Crab Shack, Tybee Lighthouse, Tybee Island Marine Science Center, Tybee Pier & Pavilion, Lighthouse Pizza for carbo loading before the race and a full moon over the Atlantic Ocean. (More pics from Ft. Pulaski and The Crab Shack coming later!)
- The sun begins to rise over the ocean
- Full moon setting on the western horizon
- The morning light in my room was magical!
- Birds soared in the breeze off my balcony every morning.
- So close I could reach out and touch them
- The last morning I fed them bread from my balcony. There were probably 50 seagulls!
- I’d throw the bread and they’d snatch it right out of the air. It was so amazing, it made my heart race!
- The Breakfast Club!!!
- Key Lime Birthday Pie
- Only this wonderful sign is left…
- The Crab Shack
- The Marine Science Center rescues abandoned loggerhead turtles.
- This baby loggerhead is only two months old! The Science Center will raise him and then release him back to the ocean.
- Moonrise reflects off the water
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