Savannah - Day Three

On Tuesday, we ventured to a couple of places. One was the University of Georgia Marine Education Center and Aquarium. It featured exhibits on tidal creek, salt marsh, ocean environments and 14 tanks containing native species. There was also an exhibit showing fossils of sharks, giant armadillos, whales, mastodons and wooly mammoths dredged from the Skidaway River.

We also took a hike on trails through forest and along the marsh.







A three hundred year old tree.










Housed in the former passenger station of the Central Georgia Railroad are both the Savannah Visitor Center and the Savannah History Museum, which we also visited. The structure, designed by Augustus Schwaab in 1860, includes the original train shed at the rear. We enjoyed an eighteen-minute film about Savannah, narrated by founder James Oglelthorp. A bit light-hearted but still enjoyable.

We wandered through the varied exhibits in no particular order and at no particular pace. The park bench from the movie Forrest Gump is here (a prop like in the movie, but still interesting), as is a steam locomotive from the Central of Georgia Railroad. An Oscar won by Johnny Mercer and Juliette Gordon Low's family carriage. Also an exhibit on fashion and history with a display of women's evening gowns from the late 1800s to the 1960s.