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Fort Frederica

We also toured Fort Frederica again. This was the first English settlement in Georgia to defend against the Spanish. They happened to be having a reenactment the day we visited, lucky us, so we got some shots of that as well. I am really entrigued by the construction of the homes at the fort and it is still a style that is prevalent in the homes around St. Simons. Must have been tons of oyster shells in the day. Check out the rat underneath the table of the Dr. reenactor's table. I asked why it was there and he smiled and said there were always vermin present during operations...yuk... don't think you can see some of the operating implements.... they are horrific.

Oh how I love the ocean

Last weekend Wood and I went to Saint Simon's Island in Southeast Georgia and stayed at our favorite, the King and Prince Beach resort. We had a cabana room right on the beach, so I was in heaven because every morning we could just get up and go out the door and either sit on our private patio and watch the sunrise and the birds or walk on the beach or listen to the rain. I loved it. Very refreshing after the previous two weeks trip

Two final shots of the 9th Ward

the Ninth Ward

The area around Nunez college

the houses in the picture above were originally located ACROSS the canal. The surge picked them up and deposited them across the water. they had just finished building this state of the art activities center at the college. The mold below is where the water settled... about 6-8 feet up The hardest hit area that I have seen so far is what is exactly the same as the service area for Nunez community college. Although they serve several parishes (counties) every parish they serve was hit both by Katrina and by the levee breach. The staff at Nunez are AMAZING. They have started the recovery effort themselves but working diligently the last 5 months to clean up and rebuild their own campus so they could begin classes and get on with some kind of normalcy for their students. I was so moved and impressed for the community and family atmosphere that the staff have for each other and for their students. They were seriously knocked down but have refused to stay down and are back up and fighting to restore their campus and the programs that they were offering their students to be productive citizens in their community. They really need a lot of support.