During the last six months, East Beach on St. Simon’s Island has been my happy place. Tom and I go there at least once a week. We try to hit the beach during low tide for two reasons. First, there is more beach so it is easier to social distance. Second, the beach is more …
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Private Screenings at Georgia Theater Company
In an effort to reopen safely, the Georgia Theater Company started offering private screenings of movies around the middle of May. The Georgia Theater Company owns a lot of movie theaters in Georgia. I’ve written about them before, because they have the delightful Flashback Cinema. The movie theater on the island is part of the …
Great Egret Eating Skink and Lizard
Last week when Tom and I were eating lunch, Tom mentioned there was a great egret in our front yard. I looked out the window and was surprised to see one so close to the RVs. Usually the great egrets stick to the marsh, where they hunt for fish. But this egret, being an opportunist, …
Visitors Few and Far Between During Pandemic
Usually I do a post on the visitors we have while we are working at a site. We had expected lots of visitors this year, but the pandemic screwed that up. So we really valued the few visitors we had – some familiar faces among all the weirdness. Our first visitors (back before 2020 got …
Barkskins: A Limited Series on NatGeo
Recently I have been enjoying the limited series (8 episodes) of “Barkskins” on the National Georgraphic Channel. An ad for it popped up when I was checking the weather one day, and it looked fascinating, so I set a calendar reminder for it. “Barkskins,” based on a part of the book by Annie Proulx, deals …
Submerged Ship Is Still in St. Simon’s Sound
I wrote at the end of January about the cargo ship “Golden Ray” that had capsized and was laying on its side in St. Simon’s Sound. Since January, there have been developments, but the submerged ship is still in St. Simon’s Sound (how about that alliteration?). The team working on getting the ship out of …
Wildflowers of St. Simon’s Island
I have been enjoying the flowers here on St. Simon’s. I started with the thousands of azaleas that you see all over the island. Now that they are long gone, I still look for blossoms big and small as I take my walks every day. I don’t know what all of these are, but I …
Baking for Entertainment and Deliciousness
I read a statistic recently that said people have done twice as much baking during the two months of the Coronavirus self-isolating than they typically do during November and December, the biggest baking months of the year. I can totally understand that. When I am stressed, I want to eat cookies. Of course, I also …
Jacksonville, Florida and a New Television
Last Sunday we left the island for the first time in months and headed to Jacksonville, Florida. We were not, however, traveling for pleasure. Instead, we were heading to our closest Best Buy to get a new television. Our old 46″ Samsung has served us well, bouncing along with us over thousands of miles of …
Carolina Wren Nesting at Fort Frederica
The Carolina Wren is one of many birds we have in abundance at Fort Frederica. During our recent closure, we found two Carolina Wren nests in odd places. The first nest was in one of the golf carts. These golf carts are parked under a shelter behind the Visitors Center. We use them to give …