Tybee Island Shrimp Boats

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Tybee Island Shrimp Boats

Artist

Priscilla Burgers

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Photograph - Photography

Description

Shrimp boats are docked at Lazaretto Creek Marina on Tybee Island after a long day of shrimping. Tybee Island is an island and city in Chatham County, Georgia near the city of Savannah. It is the easternmost point in the state of Georgia. The small island, which has long been a quiet getaway for the residents of Savannah, has become a popular vacation spot with tourists from outside the Savannah metropolitan area. Tybee Island is also home to the first of what became the Days Inn chain of hotels, the oft-photographed Tybee Island Light Station, and the Fort Screven Historic District.

It is one of the few locations where the U.S. Air Force dropped an atomic bomb by accident (during a botched 1958 military training exercise). Though the "Tybee Bomb" did not detonate (and, according to some reports, was not armed with a fuse), there has been ongoing concern since the Mark 15 nuclear bomb lost during the mishap was never found.

Every year since 1987 Tybee Island has had an annual Beach Bum parade, traditionally held in May. The parade route comes down the main road in Tybee, Butler Avenue, and when parade floats come by onlookers have been known to shoot each other with water-guns.


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