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Newsletter 10-07 - Trip to Skidaway
By Rita Riley

On Sat, Oct 13th we took our grandsons to the Savannah area to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Open House which we mentioned in our last newsletter. It took about 4 hours just to get to see everything there-but with children 7 & 9 we didn’t spend as much time as we could have if they had been older & read everything thoroughly. The entrance had turtles, then we did the aquarium & education center. The highlights of the day for the kids were a) the remotely operated underwater vehicle (& Will Bootle got a Certificate of learning to operate it)   and b) the R/V Savannah research boat. There were also microscopes at the Plankton World and a radio station & a shellfish laboratory. Everyone there was so cordial & helpful & there were many water stations & free bananas & oranges. Once the kids had visited 7 major “stops” & got their programs stampedat each stations, they were given a free nylon back  pack. This is an annual event, with over 3000 attending this year. We highly recommend this for next October.



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