Jekyll Island

Jekyll Island has 10 miles of beach and supposedly lots of shells, and has restrooms, showers, and picnic areas.

Jekyll Island Campground
1197 Riverview Drive
Reservations: 1-866.658.3021
primitive tent - $23
free wireless

sea turtles
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center
Hatchling walks - 7am-10am - check web site for dates
Turtle walks - 8:30pm-9:30pm

Georgia's Barrier Islands - Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island National Seashore

ferry - Adults $10.17 - Children $6.05
camping - (no campfires at backcountry sites)
no stores on island
Day Use Fee $4.00 per person/per visitSea Camp Campground $4.00 per person/per dayBack Country Camping $2.00 per person/per dayAnnual Day Use Permit $20.00 per personPersons camping will also be required to purchase a day use permit.

Visitor Center: Daily 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

(912) 882-4335 - Reservation Line (10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon-Fri)

(912) 882-4336 - Information Line (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily)

Cumberland Island Salt Marsh Earthcache

Dolphin Tours

Benjamin wants to go on a dolphin tour so badly. We did a dolphin "watch" tour a couple of years ago, and we did see a few dolphins, but they weren't guaranteed. Benjamin was disappointed that they didn't come right up to the boat and talk to us like Flipper. So, let's see where they are and how much:

• Captain Mikes Dolphin Tours on Tybee Island
  20 min. from historic Savannah, won awards, on TV
  departs daily from Lazaretto Creek Marina
  passes Cockspur lighthouse and Fort Pulaski and Tybee Lighthouse
  1 - 1.5 hours
  $15.00 for adults and $8.00 for children
  from Savannah: Go east on Bay Street to Islands Expressway. Follow to end, Turn left onto Highway 80 East to Tybee Island. Cross Lazaretto Creek Bridge. Turn right just past the bridge to Lazaretto Marina.
  from Tybee: Go west on Hwy 80 to the last road on the left before Lazaretto Creek Bridge. There will be a bill board set back from the road. Turn left in front of the bill board. Go to the dead end and turn right.
• Dolphin Tours - St. Simons Island
  90 minutes
  $24 - adults & $12 children
  Reservations Recommended
  Departure from Jekyll Wharf · Call 912.635.3152 - June thru August - Three trips daily
  Departure from St. Simons · Golden Isles Marina - Call 912.638.5678 - June thru August - Two trips daily

Sun and Moon

Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
(longitude W81.1, latitude N32.0)

Tuesday 15 July 2008

Sunrise - 6:29 a.m.
Sunset - 8:31 p.m.
(eastern time)

Full Moon on 18 July

Birmingham, AL - McWane, Vulcan, and Zoo

Birmingham, Alabama

McWane Science Center
200 19th Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203
$16 X 2 + $12 + $5 (parking) = $50 (est.)
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12noon-6pm
Dinosaurs of Alabama Exhibit
aquarium with jellyfish, IMAX

Vulcan Park and Museum
1701 Valley View Drive
Birmingham, AL 35209
phone: (205) 933-1409
open 7 days a week
Vulcan Park grounds: open Monday through Sunday 7 am - 10 pm - free
Vulcan Center Museum: open Monday through Saturday 10 am - 6 pm and Sunday 1- 6 pm.
Observation Balcony: open Monday through Saturday 10 am - 10 pm and Sunday 1 pm - 10 pm.
museum and balcony are $6 X 2 + $4 - free parking
largest cast iron statue in the entire world
free WiFi Internet access
3 geocaches here including an earthcache

Birmingham Zoo
2630 Cahaba Road
$12 X 2 + $7
admission is half-price on Tuesdays
open Mon, Wed & Thurs- 9 am to 5 pm & Tues, Fri, Sat & Sun- 9 am to 7 pm
has a train
Camel Rides - 10 to 4 pm (weather permitting) $5 plus tax per ride.
Lorikeet Aviary - 10 - 4 pm daily
Pelican Feeding & Keeper Talk 2 pmand right next to the zoo is:

Birmingham Botanical Gardens
free 365 days a year, from sunrise to sunset
Gardens Cafe - Tuesday - Saturday, 11a.m. - 2p.m.
Lots of geocaches all around these, too!

Savannah

Squares of Savannah

Chatham Area Transit
Fare–Free CAT Shuttle in Historic Savannah

Restaurants in Savannah

Savannah's Squares

The Echo Chamber cache in Savannah

Savannah cache map

Savannah Visitor Information

Savannah Coasts

Dolphin Tours
River Street, Savannah
$23 X 2 + $11

Savannah Georgia Official Guide

Oatland Island Wildlife Education Center
every day - 10am-4pm
$5 X 2 + $3
(has two caches)

Haunted places in Savannah:

• The Mercer House
• The Espy House
• Hampton-Lillibridge House
• Colonial Park Cemetery
• The Royal Tenenbaum's House
• Dr. Corsen's House
• The Savannah Theater
• Bonaventure Cemetery (Johnny Mercer's grave)
• Laurel Grove Cemetery
• Pirate's House
• Morgue Tunnel
• Candler Hospital
• Hampton-Lilibridge House ("most haunted home in America")

Fernbank Museum of Natural History - Atlanta

Fernbank Museum of Natural History
767 Clifton Road
N.E. Atlanta, Georgia
corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Clifton Road
Mon-Sat: 10 am - 5 pm - Sun: Noon to 5 p.m.
$15 X 2 + $13
Giants of the Mesozoic - dinosaur skeletons
A Walk Through Time in Georgia - life-size dinosaur display
and other exhibits

Tybee Island

Tybee Island

Tybee Island Online

Tybee Island Dolphin Tours

The Crab Shack
40 Estill Hammock Road
Hwy 80 to Tybee, just past mile marker 33
feed the alligators

Tybee Lighthouse
Open every day, except Tuesday
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
$6 X 2 + $5

Pier

Costs - Tickets, Admission, Rides, Attractions, Parking combined with Trinkets, T-Shirts, Souvenirs

Tickets, rides, attractions, and parking will be separated out from trinkets, t-shirts, and souvenirs (which are obviously estimates) when I do the final totals.

Wild Adventures Theme Park
Admission = $45 X 2 (adult) + $40 (child)
parking = $7

Tybee Lighthouse
$6 X 2 + $5

Agrirama
$7 X 2 + $4

McWane Science Center Birmingham
$16 X 2 + $12 + $5 (parking) = $50 (est.)

Vulcan Park and Museum Birmingham
Vulcan Park grounds - free
museum and observation balcony are $6 X 2 + $4 - free parking

Birmingham Zoo
$12 X 2 + $7
admission is half-price on Tuesdays

Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta
$15 X 2 + $13

Stone Mountain Park Stone Mountain, GA
All Day Pass - $25 X 2 + $20
Parking - $8
Scenic Railroad (30 min) - $9 X 2 + $7
Summit Skyride - $9 X 2 + $7
Duck boats - $13
Treehouse Challenge - $7 X 2 + $9
The Great Barn - $7 X 2 + $9
Antebellum Plantation & Farmyard - $9 X 2 + $7

Costs - Meals

Food is always the most expensive thing on vacation. Maybe not this year what with gas prices, but it always has been in the past. The most important thing to Terry on vacation is to find good local food and to eat food that he's never eaten before. We don't get into fancy dining nor do we want a chain restaurant (although Marie Callender's saved us in Los Angeles, and I have that tradition now (after the food poisoning) of visiting the Taco Bell in Weed, CA anytime we're in that neighborhood, and Terry does like Joe's Crab Shack). I found some Joe's Crab Shacks; for some reason, they have 5 or 6 encircling Atlanta. I don't understand why they don't space them out, some out of the box marketing plan, I guess. We need some good seafood places on the coast and a good seafood market as we leave the coast.

Usually, I estimate the food by just setting an amount for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; I think I usually estimate too low. So, I'll go with:
breakfast - $10 X3 = $30
lunch - $15 X 3 = $45
dinner - $20 X 3 = $60
snacks - $15 per day
= $150 per day

Some days, if we camp or something, we might just have sandwiches, buy some lunchmeat, bread, and cheese; we'll have an ice chest. So, these numbers might be too high; we'll see.

Total for food = $150 X 9 days = $1,350
that's just an ungodly amount!!

Haunted Places in Savannah

I want to do my own haunted tour of Savannah so I have the list of haunted places from one of the tour places, and I need to find all the addresses and do a Google map of them.

Mercer Williams House Museum - 429 Bull Street, Monterey Square, Savannah, GA


The Espy House
432 Abercorn St
Calhoun Square, corner of Abercorn and Wayne

Pirate's House Restaurant
20 E Broad St.

Hampton-Lillibridge House
"most haunted home in America"
507 E. St. Julian St. on Washington Square

Colonial Park Cemetery
between Oglethorpe, Abercorn, Perry, and Habersham

Bonaventure Cemetery
(Johnny Mercer's grave)

Laurel Grove Cemetery
802 W. Anderson

• The Royal Tenenbaum's House
• Dr. Corsen's House
• The Savannah Theater
• Morgue Tunnel
• Candler Hospital

Costs - Gas

I'll have to find my gas formula; I can never remember it. Terry says the Ford Freestyle gets at least 25 miles to the gallon.

miles / miles per gallon = total gallons X price per gallon = gas cost

miles = 2,312 + 50 (est.) for cities = 2362
miles per gallon = 25
cost per gallon of gas = $4

2,312/25 = total gallons (94.48) x $4 = $377.92

We'll call it $400 for gas.