Tallulah Gorge State Park, GA

Well Georgia has us bouncing from hot and humid (our first use of our air conditioner – if only for short spells to reduce the heat in the RV) to cool rainy weather her in the mountains – we may have overdone it running from the heat!  After Pensacola Beach we drove into southern Georgia and ended up at the Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park, and they had an opening for one night only (being Easter Thursday – they are booked solid for the weekend).  It’s a lovely state park on a lake with a swamp at one end and warnings to watch out for alligators (we never saw any).  The park has a golf course and a big resort along with a museum and a collection of planes, armor and artillery from around the second WW, Korea and Vietnam eras. 

And the park has bugs!  And Heat. And Humidity.   After an hour’s brisk walk (to keep ahead of the bugs) we decided that it was just as well that they were booked for the weekend.   

Easter Friday we drove north and east heading for the mountains where we hoped it was cooler.  We started looking for a campground after we cleared Atlanta (we had taken secondary roads so we never actually drove through Atlanta but had gotten north and east of it by early afternoon).  After some frustrating false starts we found Tallulah Falls and space in the state park campground.  Tallulah Falls advertises itself as the Little Grand Canyon of the East and has a lovely canyon running through it with great rim walks and a suspension bridge across.   The campground is run by Georgia Power so its not part of the state park system and is well run with a nice small laundry.   Yesterday we did the rim walk hikes after setting up and crossed the suspension bridge.  We also visited the nature center, which is well done with displays explaining the various canyon eco systems.   

There is a free music festival in town this evening and some nice places nearby to visit so we are going to stay a day or so.  We hear that there is cold rain north of us so we are not anxious to start heading north too quickly.   Apparently the town hall has wifi so we might even be able to get messages and update our blog.