East Coast Bound--Day 30

We've pretty much had down days this week. It had been pouring down rain since last Tuesday evening so we have not ventured out much. We did make a trip over to the body shop yesterday. Not to pick up the car but to take them a second set of keys since the Tech locked the first set in the car. They were planning to finish it yesterday so we could leave Savannah today. Unfortunately, they ran into some problems with the "after market" parts (meaning non-General Motors parts). Mainly the left front fender and the bumper cover. They got the correct parts in last night, plan to paint it today and, hopefully, get it back to us this evening. If that happens we'll plan to head west tomorrow morning. Due to the rain we have been pretty lazy and even sleeping as late as little Bridgit Jeane will let us. (After about 8:00 am she starts yapping to be let out of her kennel and be taken outside.) As you can see from the picture, Buddy Joe does not sleep in a kennel but takes his share of the bed. As we wait around for the body shop to call we are enjoying the glorious sunshine that came out today. The storms have finally moved out to sea and the weather has turned nice, although a bit on the cool side.

One thing that has fascinated me while we've been here is the tide from the ocean. It goes out every six hours and then comes back six hours later. Just down the road is a place where some folks have a small inlet that comes in directly behind their houses. They have built some nice docks and have their boats tied up there. Each time the tide goes out this inlet is completely drained and the boats wind up sitting in mud. When the tide comes back the boats then float again. Guess these folks have to really follow the tide tables when they want to go out fishing. I'm just amazed they let their boats sit in mud for half the day every day. I went over there yesterday morning an took a picture about the time the time was nearly out. In another hour their would have been no water in the inlet at all. Amazing what interest a person when boredom sets in.

It is finally such a beautiful day we decided to walk back down to the Tybee beach. The sun is out but it is fairly windy with the wind coming out of the northwest. When we got to the beach it was at low tide so the surf was out really far. With the wind blowing so hard the sand was really whipping out toward the water. (Not sure if it really shows on this picture but those streaks of white sand are what was blowing directly toward us as we were walking.) Down the beach were so "kite surfers" having a good time in the wind. These guys were amazing in what they could do on these small surf boards using a huge kite to move them around. A couple of them were able to life well off the water and do flips. This last picture is of one of them in the air. If you click on the picture to enlarge it you'll see his lines going up to the kite. I missed getting the actual kite in the picture.