Rice Plantation and Fort George

I have always wanted to see a plantation - ever since seeing Gone With the Wind - and my idea of a plantation is Tara. There is Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation right near where we are camping and went to visit it yesterday. I didn't know that most of the coastal Georgia area was rice farms, not cotton or tobacco. The ancestral home we saw was continually used from the late 1700's until 1973 when the last of the family died and bequeathed the home and land to the state. They started out as rice farmers then moved to dairy at the beginning of the 1900's. Big place. Will send pictures on separately.

Then from there we went to Fort King George, the first British fort in Georgia. Was pretty impressive, but I have to say - was ghostly. I had to leave one of the buildings because I could feel spirits of men in there, and they weren't happy. Weirdest feeling I have had.

Drove a short distance down the road (we are definitely in the coastal area - you could see miles of rivers and low land, with no buildings there) and had a late lunch early dinner at MudCat Charlies - had the most yummy shrimp - and cheap. There are shrimp boats right by there and we are told that it's all locally caught fish.

Today we are going over to Sapelo Island where RJ Reynolds had his mansion and also Ford and Hanna (Cleveland's Hanna) and many others. Saturday will be a day of just chilling at the site, we move Sunday to Charleston South Carolina.