This morning I went for a bike ride over to St. Simon’s Island.  Signs like this are a clue that we’re in Georgia:

Looking out over the Georgia lowlands:

After returning from my ride, we drove to St. Simon’s Island to visit Fort Frederica National Monument:

Fort Frederica was an English fort built in 1736 as a counterbalance to the Spanish Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine:

A Spanish attack on the fort was repulsed by English forces, ending Spanish attempts to take lands north of what today is the Florida/Georgia border.

Spanish Moss hangs on everything here:

The fort and the surrounding town are gone now, but recent archeological efforts have uncovered building foundations.  Park historians have been able to identify the function and ownership of most building sites thanks to 18th-century documents:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges:

We continued south to overnight at a Walmart near Saint Marys, Georgia, crossing this bridge along the way:

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.