Project on Skidaway Island

Okay, this isn't about the house or the neighborhood but it is about a lovely place 70 miles east of here. I am helping the director of Georgia Southern University's Applied Coastal Research Laboratory update his website. The lab is on Skidaway Island southeast of Savannah and most of the island is private and gated. According to Wikipedia, the island's Landings Club is one of the largest gated communities (waterfront homes and six golf courses) in the country. The 2000 census shows the island's racial makeup was 97.57 percent white and the average age was 61.

However, the lab shares a beautiful 700-acre campus without gates on the north end of the island with Skidaway Institute of Oceanography that was established in 1967, when Robert C. Roebling donated his cattle farm to the State of Georgia for a coastal marine research facility. The Roebling family made a fortune from its wire cable business and from building bridges including the Brooklyn and Golden Gate.

Three photos merged into one image of the Applied Coastal Research Laboratory, tucked behind the old silos.

 Stratocumulus clouds along a convergence boundary (I know this because I live with a climatologist) taken from the dock at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.