Thursday & Friday 17th + 18th May

Liz on the 89 yard par 3 - she only 

gets 2 shots here!!

Once again it was wet first thing in the morning but we managed to find a reduced tee time at the Golden Bear course which we had played a couple of days previously. By 12:00 the rain had cleared and we had a mostly sunny but very humid round of golf. We played on our own, Ben played better but I still managed to beat him (again). In the evening we went for a walk on the beach and sampled some of the Hilton Head night life in a beach bar which had live music. We reckoned we were about the oldest people there.

groovy baby

On Friday morning we decided to go and visit 'Old Town', Savanna. We drove through torrential thundery rain but by the time we had parked the car in Savanna the rain had stopped. We eventually managed to find the visitor centre, having been given completely different directions by 2 Americans.

Gertrude in full flow

We decided the best way to see the city was to take a trolley bus tour with a guide. 'Gertrude' was dressed as a southern belle from the Confederate period and coming from Savanna had the accent to match.  Her amusing yet historically interesting anecdotes of the points of interest she was telling us about was very good but there were so many historical buildings which made it virtually impossible for her to point them all out. It was very interesting, more so than Charleston which we visited many years ago. Having been driven around the historic part of the town we decided to walk through it and ended up walking along by the river which was buzzing with visitors and market stalls. We watched an enormous container ship sailing down the river towards the sea.

Gertude had told us the river was 53ft

deep in the channel - it needs to be!

By tradition we like to eat at the Red Lobster and as the nearest to here is in Savanna we ate there on the way home. We both enjoyed our lobster, Ben's accompanied with a New York Strip steak and mine with shrimps and salmon; Ben thought the standard  was not as good as our previous meals - indeed the waitress admitted they were staffed mainly by trainees and knocked $10 off the bill.

General James Oglethorpe and the 114 passengers of the good ship "Anne" landed on a bluff high along the Savannah River in February 1733. Oglethorpe named the 13th and final American colony "Georgia" after England's King George II.  His passengers were all from debtors prison and excluded Catholics and lawyers!