350 miles, 5 days, hmm...

We spent an extra day in Jacksonville with Andrew's family and left early the next morning heading for the Okefenokee Swamp. Our next "appointment" was a graduation at Carolina Coastal University in South Carolina.

We entered the Okefenokee via Georgia's Steven C Foster State Park. There we rented a canoe and paddled into the swamp. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.





We took a tent with us on the trip but the weather was threatening so we wimped out and stayed at a nearby motel.

The next day we headed for Jekll Island, Georgia, in search of the The Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island. It's an interesting place. We visited the building where they rehabilitate turtles. That's where I found "Ed," an 18-pound, juvenile, female! green sea turtle who was floating abnormally when found last September near Jekyll Island. She is eating now and will likely be released soon.



Still a few days until graduation number two so we explored the rest of the island and headed north. We spent one more night in a motel and two nights camping.

The first camping night was on the ocean at Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina. We had a tent site no more than 100 feet from the beach and spent a few hours walking in the surf.

Our second camping night was on the Intercoastal Waterway at the US Forest Service's Buck Hall Campground. Our tent was fifty feet from a seawall on the waterway.

The next morning we stopped to pick some fresh strawberries (which survived about 30 minutes) and spent the better part of the day at Brookgreen Gardens near Myrtle Beach, leaving at the last minute to pick up Barry at Myrtle Beach Airport.