In the spirit of trying something new, we went to Tybee Island for fall break this year. Tybee is a small city near Savannah known for its wide sandy beaches and a famous lighthouse. What I will remember most is how uncrowded the beaches were, the crazy amount of shells on the beach, and all the horseshoe crabs. Every morning we walked the beach looking for shells, shark teeth, and horseshoe crabs. There were more shells on the beach than any beach I’ve been to before. That was actually Lilly’s least favorite part; she was expecting sugar white sand, not mountains of shells. I think everyone but me found a shark tooth, but not from lack of looking. At one point I was convinced they bought a bottle of teeth and just pretended to find them to screw with me. I may not have found/bought any shark teeth, but I did find a pristine sand dollar just laying on some driftwood, so there’s that. The really unusual part was all the horseshoe crabs. There were dozens of crabs every morning. Most of them were alive, but had dug themselves in the sand trying to get back to the ocean. Laura made it her life’s mission to rescue as many as possible. To her credit, she did save a lot of them, so blame her if there is some disaster caused by overpopulation of horseshoe crabs.
One of the few attractions we visited was the lighthouse. As you can imagine, you can see this thing from about anywhere on the island. The plaques outside paint a pretty rough picture of the lighthouse including burning down, being shot down, and simply falling down a couple times. In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to walk to the top.
My personal funniest memory of the trip has to be when Lilly cut the cheese in a gift shop. First you should know Tybee is not a busy place, so it’s pretty quite in the gift shops. As we were walking through the shop admiring the crafts, I hear a loud fart behind me. As I turn my head to hear Lilly snickering, I hear a voice come from an isle or two way shout “OH MY GOD!” in a tone I can only describe as disgust and horror. I was not about to wait around for a face to face meeting with said stranger and try to explain this, so I took the best option available; retreat to the corner of the store to wait out the embarrassment with Lilly.
