Wow, what a day this has been! The Good Lord has truly blessed our Sunday. We had a spectacular sunrise, clear sunny skies, temps in the 80s and NO RAIN!!!!!!
We got on the road to Savannah (our KOA is about 15 miles southwest of Savannah center) about 10 AM with time to spare before we boarded the River Queen for our brunch cruise of the Savannah River.
There is an outstanding memorial to the World War II veterans along the waterfront which shows the world split in two with the names of Georgians who died in the war along walls inside.
The lunch buffet cruise goes upriver against the current passing under a bridge which had been replaced to allow taller cargo ships to pass through the Savannah Port, the fourth largest in the US behind Los Angeles, Long Beach and New York City. The port authority constantly dredges the Savannah River to keep it at 42 feet at low tide.
We traveled downriver passing a huge pile of wood shredding which is shipped to Turkey to be made into compressed wood which might be used by IKEA to be turned into furniture!
We watched a large cargo ship being guided by tugs.
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We wondered if 007 was in port on this yacht!
As we turned around to go upriver to get back to the city, we passed this salvage operation to raise the ironsides ship USS Georgia sunk during the Civil War. We knew it was a successful operation because Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt waved to us!
The food we ate on the cruise was just as good (if not better than) the food we had at Paula Deene's last night. The fried green tomatoes under the eggs Benedict were spectacular.
After we docked, we headed for the Bonaventure Cemetery, mentioned in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" which we have heard a lot about here in Savannah and all of us want to read now. We found the grave of Johnny Mercer. Now the question is who can name several of his Academy Award winning songs?
We drove back to camp to enjoy wine, cheese and crackers along the water outside Ashlie and Heather's cabin at KOA.
We soon attracted squirrels, canada geese and turtles. There were mute swans swimming around, too.
Because we were too tired to wait for a wood fire to die down enough for 'smores over fire, we decided to cook them over our gas stove!!
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