Tybee Island

The nice thing about living in Savannah is that while most people come on vacation here, we live here. We can go to the beach any time we want. On Good Friday John had the day off school and I had the afternoon off of work so we went to Tybee Island. It only took us about 40 minutes to drive there from home. It turned out to be a great day. It was the lowest tide day so we had miles more beach than normal and we could find lots of cool shells. It was kind of a windy, cold day even though the sun was shining and it was beautiful.

John found a small crab. Even though he looks bright white in this picture, he was actually bright pink by the end of the day. We forgot that even though it was cold outside, the sun was still shining.

I found a sand dollar on the beach. At high tide there's almost no beach at all. This day we could walk way out to where the water would normally be 10-20 feet deep.


John also found the exoskeleton of a horseshoe crab. It was pretty freaky looking, at first we didn't know if it was alive of not. We brought it home. It now lives on our deck, which is better than the back of our toilet.

Once the tide started to come back in we headed for shore. We decided to go see the light house on Tybee.