Back to St. Simons Island...

 27 February 2022

Blythe Island Regional Park Campground, Blythe Island, Georgia

Marc-  Today we returned to St. Simons Island to continue our exploration.  Some of the highlights included climbing the Lighthouse, visiting the World War II Museum in an old Coast Guard base, going to the Coast Guard Beach, visiting the shops in the Village, and playing miniature golf at the Public Library.

St. Simons Lighthouse

View from the Lighthouse

Nearby Brunswick is a major car carrier port.

The downtown beach at high tide. 

The former St. Simons Coast Guard Base. 

(At the old Coast Guard Base)

Sago palm

Coast Guard Beach in the fog.

Liberty Ships were cargo ships built in Brunswick to support the war effort in World War II.

My father was in the US Merchant Marine and served aboard many of these ships during the war.

Many women welders worked in the Brunswick Shipyard.

Scale model of a Liberty Ship.

A live oak in town getting a little extra support.  Live oaks were harvested here on St. Simons Island to construct the USS Constitution in 1797.  Many trees remain all over the island.

Chinese Holly

Indian Hawthorn

There is a new bird at the Campground.