Up early to pack up and get on the road. Cold and grey outside, but thankfully no rain.  Wasn't a real early start on the road, 10:15 a.m., but early enough for me. Actually a good day for driving, cool enough out that I needed the heater on at least part of the time each hour. Only 47 degrees outside for most of the day and really only climbed above 50 once I got into Florida late in the day.

   Finally back in the land of palm trees, orange groves and alligators. Happy to be here and all set up for the next week. Pulled into Coe Landing county park around 5:30 this evening and had the trailer backed in, unhitched and all set up in less than 20 mins. I'm really starting to get the hang of this stuff evidently, should be, it has been nearly 4 years after all. My camp site is only 20 feet from the shore line of a lake, so it will be nice to see the water while eating breakfast in the morning. Need to meet up with 'Rusty' sometime in the morning and get my fee all sorted out. If the past is any indication he will be by early in the morning to pick up a check.

    No real plans for most of the week yet. A few things on the list is to go see a couple light house's that I didn't get to last year, walk on the beach, eat some fish/shrimp taco's, dance if there is one and go see the newest Bond movie. That should pretty much take care of the week if I only get to about half of those things.

    In the meantime, finally got my pictures from last Saturday to load up like they were suppose to. Sorry that three of them are repeats from what was posted a few days ago, but here is the complete set that I wanted to post on that day.

This water powered grist mill was moved here from somewhere else in Georgia, but it was still a nice looking building.

A slightly different view of the mill.

A covered bridge over one of the lake arms in the park.

A closer look showing some of the trees on either side of the inlet.

This bridge wasn't really a truss bridge like many covered bridges are, but it did still have a bunch of diagonal support members on either side that not only held up the roof, but probably also helped support the span to some degree. Each diagonal was a 4"x10" and there were two large (1.5" dia +/-), wooden pins at each intersection. I just liked the view between them.

A short walk around an island and the trees were just stunning.

This view, with the water in the background and the sun shining through the leaves made me pause to admire, and take a picture of it. The dark contrast of the tree trunks with the sun glimmering on the leaves really made the scene pop.

Another view.

Stone Mountain is of course named after a 'stone mountain'. In this case it was a large bulging lava dome that formed underground and then cooled. When the overburden eroded away it left this smooth bowl shaped mountain of rock sticking up above the surrounding land forms. Somewhere along the line someone decided what they really needed was a big rock sculpture dedicated to a couple dead Civil War generals carved into one side of it. A very impressive sculpture, much larger than Mt Rushmore actually, it just doesn't look as impressive because of the distance I am away from it. They had a sign listing the 3 Confederate Generals shown in it, but the only one I remember is general Buford Forrest and the only reason for that memory is because Forrest Gump is named after him in the book and the movie.

One final photo not shot at the park. This is the steeple of the church next door to where the dance was held this weekend. It just seemed very impressive in the late afternoon sunlight with its height and mass of flying buttresses to support it.