St. Mary's Georgia - a day of rest

 

Monday April 25, 2022

This was a planned down day.  After Ben drove for two days, he wanted a day to do nothing.  This was the place to do it!  We did forget one thing – our folding chairs – so we made a run to the local Wal-Mart, CVS, and Dollar Store looking for cheap light weight chairs.  NO luck – everything was heavy steel.  Guess they need to make them strong to hold up all the overweight people… bought nothing.  Maybe later we will find something.  Then we drove around a little and ended up back in downtown St. Mary’s and visited the Park Service Office to check on time etc. for the ferry and tour tomorrow.   Ate lunch at a saloon type place recommended by a park ranger as nearby place for lunch – Jane’s hamburger was good but Ben’s Chowder and Grilled Cheese – chowder good – grilled cheese burned on one side.  He complained and got it taken off the bill.  

Palms just beginning to leaf out

Good Burger and Sweet Potato Fries

Good Chowder but Bad Grilled Cheese 

After lunch we checked out the new Park Service Museum – very nicely done with the history of the Island and lots of artifacts from the past – Indians, through Revolutionary and Civil Wars and then the Gilded Age.  

One of several Gilded Age Buggies and Statue from Dungeness

We walked around a bit more, did some porch reading and had a short nap.  Then we went to find St. Mary’s Seafood where Ben had eaten seafood on all his trips here with Troop 48.   We had a good seafood platter and split it with Jane getting all the clams and Ben all the oysters.  The rest we split between us. Perfect amount.  I cannot imagine how anyone could eat twice what we ate – they had a seafood platter for 2 – but no way could we have eaten that!

Back to the hotel, climbed the steps again and slept like a log!