Dat 10 - Beaufort to Savannah

First stop was the Coastal Discovery Museum, another repurposed former plantation, in this case cotton and indigo (not enough fresh water for rice) Best part was a conversation with a couple guys making sweetgrass baskets. I wanted clarification about the materials used, which I got, along with an offer to help me identify the maker of a basket we've had for many years and no longer remember when/how we got it. Anyway, materials are sweegrass, Loblolly pine needles, bullrushes held together tooth strips of palmetto. They don't all have both pine needles and bullets.

Next stop was the Savannah Wildlife Refuge, which is another way of repurposing old rice plantations. In addition to the former rice areas, we found ourselves in a cypress swamp. Also saw a red shouldered hawk and an ibis. No alligators, which we certainly wouldn't have harassed and hopefully not fed...

Dinner was excellent Filipino food, but with the peanuts, rice and pork belly it got right in with the southern theme of the trip.

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