28 February 2022
Blythe Island Regional Park Campground, Blythe Island, Georgia
Marc- I started the day off with a run around the campground in light drizzle. It was quiet with rabbits aplenty and a few Canadian geese out and about. Sue and I later enjoyed doing the New York Times crossword puzzle on Zoom with Brian.
Our adventure for the day was visiting the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island. This was a nice visit despite the cool weather due to an excellent National Park Ranger who led our tour of the remnants of the Town of Frederica as well as Fort Frederica. Ranger Sara led us past towering live oaks draped in Spanish moss to the Town Fortifications, then the streets laid out in a grid, and finally to the fort itself. Only the foundations remain of the many houses that were once here. Ranger Sara would stop in front of a foundation and then show us an augmented reality version of the house that once existed here in the early 18th century. This was a military town built in the English tradition, built to protect the Colony of Georgia from Spanish Florida. It worked, as the British forces warded off the Spanish who tried to expel them. The British forces attempted to dislodge the Spanish based at St. Augustine to the south without success.
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