Georgia Trip - Day 1

This year we traveled to Georgia for Spring Break.  The plan was to kayak, hike, and camp for the week.  We started the trip on Saturday, March 13th but had to cut it a little short to get back for Rylan's soccer tournament the next weekend.

We started the long drive down to Stephen C. Foster State Park in the rain but it cleared up quickly.  

We got unlucky this trip and hit a lot of construction and accidents that slowed us down.  We finally got to the park around 6:30 pm (Eastern).  We quickly set up our tent before it got too dark and then made dinner on the campstove in the dark (hot dogs and macaroni & cheese).  We also quickly remembered the one item we've been meaning to buy for car camping and had forgotten about - a screen tent.  The mosquitos near the swamp were monsters!  We got a lot of bites but not as many as you'd expect with the amount of mosquitos.

After dinner we walked down to the small marina area where there were less lights.  Saturday was a new moon and with the park being in the middle of nowhere, the stars were amazing.  Unfortunately I don't have a great lens for star pictures but I had brought my tripod and got a few "not horrible" pictures.

The Big Dipper:

We heard a lot of noises along the water's edge while hanging out looking at stars that we figured were frogs.  The next morning we started to question if they were frogs or alligators!

We eventually headed back to the campsite for our first of four nights at Stephen C. Foster.