Our Travel Blog

Back to being a little chilly this morning, single digits in fact at 9.7°C.

After breakfast it was time to work on getting the trailer ready for tomorrow. Time for some of the gorier stuff now, I have to deal with it, there is no reason I shouldn’t write about it. We have 4 tanks under the trailer, each with 84 gallons capacity. One is fresh water which we never use as we can connect direct to city water. One is grey water from the bathroom, one is grey water from the kitchen and finally is the black water tank.

The two grey water tanks are usually left open and the contents flow directly into the sewer system. The black tank is normally closed, this keeps all the solids and liquids in the tank until it fills up, then they are all flushed out together. If the tank was left open all the time the liquids would flow out and the solids would take up residence… not good. Anyway, I decided all the tanks need a good clean out, so the black tank was emptied and flushed with clean water. All tanks were then closed and filled with about 10 gallons of fresh water. Together with today’s waste each tank will be about a quarter full when we set off tomorrow. The plan is that the sloshing around in the tanks while traveling  will give them a good cleaning. If there is enough interest I’ll give a blow by blow account of how it works out when I drain the tanks :-).

After a bit more cleaning up outside we had lunch, and, as the weather was better than expected, we headed out to Jekyll Island for one last visit. Of course geocaching figured into the trip, and we went out on a good note getting 4 for 4. We went up to the north end of the island towards the North Beach.

This tree looked a little stunted in its growth, with all branches starting out at a flat spot few feet off the ground

One of the caches was near a pond, with the normal warnings down here.

Walking along the beach we were overtaken by one of the large car carriers, it came pretty close to the shore.

The ship will shortly make a right turn and go under the Sidney Lanier bridge in the background.

Back at the resort we finished packing as much as we could, so it shouldn’t be too much effort to finish up and head out in the morning.

Early evening saw a rather colourful sunset, although the picture doesn’t really do it justice

Woke up to cool wet weather. The rain started sometime overnight and continued through to early evening, not a pleasant day. Thankfully the forecast for the next two days is for sun and warmth, so we should be able to get the packing up done in comfort.

What else is there to do on rainy days other than shop. This morning it was the weekly grocery shop, and this afternoon Lyn made her final pilgrimage to Jo-An fabrics. I fear that store is going to see a huge downturn in sales after today!

That’s about it for today, there may be a few short blogs for the next couple of days, and normal service should be resumed by Sunday.

No change to the weather, warm air and blue skies. Life is so difficult.

As is usual the morning is spent waking up, quilting, computing etc! Once that was done we headed off to walk the “big loop”.  In previous stays here we had always joked we would take this walk, but never felt fit enough to actually do it. Today it was just another walk, no stress!

After lunch, which we have been having outside for the last few days, Lyn headed off for her last crafts meeting. While she was away I headed up to the roof and started to dismantle all of the antennas I had put up there. As the afternoon wore on the temperature increased and working on a white roof got pretty warm. Finally all the bits were down and packed away, and all the cables were wound up and stowed away.

I forgot to put a couple of pictures in yesterday showing it truly is spring down here, antirrhinum and flowering cabbage.

and an unidentified blooming bush.

Another warm night, although quite overcast when we got up.

After breakfast Lyn did some quilting while I hit e-bay looking for a replacement for our super-duper-does-everything remote for the entertainment systems. It has been getting a little finicky lately, and doing odd things in the middle of watching TV!

After lunch we headed out to the USCG (Coast Guard) station near Brunswick. There was a nature walk there, together with a geocache site. The walk was a fairly short one for us (would have been a fairly long one last year), but it had some interesting information on wildlife , trees and shrubs in the area. We saw what we thought were some type of mushroom growing on the ground, but we haven’t managed to identify it, any answers?

There were also a number of southern red cedar in the area, this looked a lot different from other trees as the trunk splits into multiple limbs close to the ground.

Further round the trail we headed down a boardwalk to a flat marshy area. This type of area is very common within about 10 miles of the coastline down here. If ever global warming takes hold (after this winter that’s a big “if”) a lot of this area will be flooded out. The vast expanse of greenery (brownery) is sea grass. In the background is St Simons IslandThe flatter area towards the front of the picture had hundreds of small crabs wandering around until we went to join them, then only a few were left the rest having disappeared down holes. These crabs were around 1.5 inches long.

Before we left we managed to find the cache as well.

We headed over to Jekyll Island for what may be our last trip as the weather forecast for the next few days isn’t too good.

We managed to find 3 out 3 caches on the island so that was a good way to spend our last afternoon there. We did see one of the more superfluous signs we had ever seen on the edge of a golf course. The nearest water was the coast about a mile away.

On the way back to the RV we stopped at two more caches and found both. We also stopped at the supermarket for a spaghetti squash. This squash was later to earn fame as a new weapon of mass destruction.

Despite Lyn having put numerous vent holes in the squash before putting it in the microwave, it still managed a pretty good explosion while cooking.