Savannah National Wildlife Refuge will be our home until mid-March. The refuge is just swarming with natural beauty and an abundance of interesting wildlife.

This is the beginning of what appears to be a superb adventure. Pat and I have been here for a month and have actually talked about moving to this area. Lovely, lovely place with even more lovely people and a couple of interesting restaurants.

   After getting settled in at the refuge, we took a trolley  tour of Savannah on a chilly and foggy day. We had a woman originally from Germany driving the trolley but she was very personable and knowledgeable about the history of this port city. The tourist part of town is simply gorgeous and one gets a true feel for the "Old South" intermingled with an occasional whiff of modern paper mills (2). After the tour, "Oglethorpe", the trolley operator essentially furnishes a shuttle service for the rest of the day. This ninety minute tour is well worth the moderate fee which was reduced due to a coupon from a Savannah brochure we picked up at the Georgia Welcome Center on I-95. The following stops are not in order so please bear with me.

                                                                       There is a very,very old wall behind the buildings on River Street and it appealed to my very limited artsy nature. I include it simply because it is indicative of Savannah's nature; historically old with a patina of 
living greenery.