Welcome to Blythe Island Regional Park in Glynn County Georgia. I picked Blythe Island because it was a good stopping point for our drive back to the panhandle of Florida and it had a good rating in Allstays. Most of the sites were pull through and they had full services. We were situated on site 60, the most outer loop of the campground. The park has a large fresh water lake for swimming and a marina and dock access to the South Brunswick River.

While we were in the area we decided to visit Jekyll Island, a destination I have heard a lot about. In the late 1800s Jekyll Island became a private retreat for the rich and famous of their time. In 1947 the Governor of Georgia established Jekyll Island as a State Park.

The park had a variety of landscapes from marshes to forrest to white sand beaches and we enjoyed them all. We especially liked Driftwood Beach, but a quick warning finding a place to park and get out to the beach was a little difficult. Driftwood beach is not the type of beach to swim from, it is more a walking beach with many interest nooks and crannies among the driftwood.

The day before we were due to leave, I discovered a National Monument was located near Brunswick. Off I went to discover what Fort Fredrica National Monument had to offer. Only a small part of the Fort remains standing. The fort was built south of Savanah, Georgia on St. Simons Island as a deterant to any Spanish attempts to claim parts of Georgia. During is heyday in the mid 1700s, the fort boasted a regiment of 1,000 soldiers and a town with over 1,000 members. Due to some small decisive vicories by the British Regiment against the Spanish, a peace treaty was signed in 1748. No longer needed to guard against Spanish attach the regiment was disbanded. The local economy collapsed, and the town fell into ruins.

I took a ranger led tour of the site where many archaeological excavations are present. As we walked from the visitor center down the main "street" to one of the remaining fort building, the King's Magazine, the ranger told of the history of the Fort. What feeling I had walking where my ancestors walked many years ago.

For more informaiton about the state parks and Fort Fredrica:

glynncounty.org/176/Blythe-Island-Regional-Park
nps.gov
gastateparks.org

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