Savannah, Georgia Tybee Island and Fort Pulaski

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Tybee Island is about half an hour from downtown Savannah. At the eastern end of the island is this large wooden pier that extends out into the Atlantic. We were there are extreme low tide, as you can see at the right of the picture—it's all sand.

Kristin took this picture of me. I am not holding onto anything. I am just floating in mid-air. No, really.

On the way back from the beach we stopped at a restaurant called the Crab Shack, which seems to be pretty popular with tourists. It's kind of hoaky, but it was certainly memorable and a good place to visit.

Harold guarding the sallyport, at the entrance of Fort Pulaski, which is actually on Cockspur Island, inland from Tybee Island. The fort was built in the 1830s to help guard the coast and the entrance to the Savannah River. During the Civil War, the Confederates initially took over the fort, but the Union took it back by 1862 and kept it for the remainder of the war. Read more about Fort Pulaski at Wikipedia.

The interior courtyard of Fort Pulaski.

Many of the cannons were set up like this one, with rollers on the bottom to make it easier to rotate the guns.

Along the top of the fort. The civil-war era cannons had a range of several miles, to help guard the entryway from the Atlantic to the Savannah River.

A stone spiral staircase leads from the ground level to the upper level.

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