What is your favorite Georgia beach?

[Atlanta-Kid]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

Seriously, what is this image of "farms"? The state of Georgia has far less farmland than practically any southeastern state, and far below as a percentage most states in the nation.

Georgia is one of the most LUSHLY Forested states in the nation. No one ever says, "I think of the forests", despite that when flying over Georgia, it looks like a massive wilderness in many ways.

Oh yeah and the forest.

[Atlanta-Kid]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Sadly, the Georgia coast is an afterthought to many Georgians as well. And I really can't blame them. Why drive 5 hours from Atlanta to Tybee Island when in the same amount of time you can get to Destin, Fort Walton or Gulf Shores -- among the most beautiful beaches in the world?

All of the gulf beaches are beutiful. And I love DESTIN, I stayed in the palms of DESTIN hotel when I went there, but that was a long time ago, LOL I WAS 11 and I still remember the name.

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

By the way, if Tybee or Georgia paid money to dump white sand on its beaches, it could have white sand too.

GIMME A BREAK! No community anywhere can afford to have "white sand" dumped onto its beaches simply for appearance sake, only to have the stuff wash back out to sea! And you don't "dump" it -- you "pump" it, usually from offshore using dredges atop barges.

During Tybee's last renourishment effort in 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pumped 1.2 million cubic yards of sand of high-qualitiy sand from a pit about a mile and a half offshore -- enough to fill 750 football fields a foot deep! Total cost was about $11 million, with Congress footing about half the bill.

And if Tybee didn't do this every 10 years or so ... there would be no Tybee. Most of the sand Tybee loses ends up on Hilton Head's beaches, which don't need it.

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

GIMME A BREAK! No community anywhere can afford to have "white sand" dumped onto its beaches simply for appearance sake, only to have the stuff wash back out to sea! And you don't "dump" it -- you "pump" it, usually from offshore using dredges atop barges.

During Tybee's last renourishment effort in 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pumped 1.2 million cubic yards of sand of high-qualitiy sand from a pit about a mile and a half offshore -- enough to fill 750 football fields a foot deep! Total cost was about $11 million, with Congress footing about half the bill.

And if Tybee didn't do this every 10 years or so ... there would be no Tybee. Most of the sand Tybee loses ends up on Hilton Head's beaches, which don't need it.

So you're saying that none of the Gulf Coast beaches pump or dump white sand?

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

So you're saying that none of the Gulf Coast beaches pump or dump white sand?

I don't think he was saying that. I'm pretty sure he was referring to the Atlantic beaches getting their sand from the Gulf. That theory is just crazy unrealistic and would be a huge waste of taxpayer money.

I'm pretty sure the Gulf beaches do the same thing places like Tybee do... pump sand from a few hundred feet out in the ocean back up to the beach for renourishment.

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

So you're saying that none of the Gulf Coast beaches pump or dump white sand?

Don't know if they do or not. But if they did, the sand would come from right off shore -- on the Gulf floor, which is quite shallow. The gentler waves and minor shift in tides means very little beach erosion anyway. In fact, I think some parts of the Gulf have too much sand. I know it gets pushed onshore during hurricanes, which is the exact opposite of what happens here.

And this is interesting: The sand in the Gulf is white because it's primarily quartz crystal, which was naturally crushed and pulvarized as it washed downstream from ... THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS! Pretty incredible huh?

And no, I didn't already know that. I looked it up. Here's a link:

Someone asked :"What makes the sand white on the "Emerald Coast" of Florida?"? - Yahoo! Answers

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Don't know if they do or not. But if they did, the sand would come from right off shore -- on the Gulf floor, which is quite shallow. The gentler waves and minor shift in tides means very little beach erosion anyway. In fact, I think some parts of the Gulf have too much sand. I know it gets pushed onshore during hurricanes, which is the exact opposite of what happens here.

And this is interesting: The sand in the Gulf is white because it's primarily quartz crystal, which was naturally crushed and pulvarized as it washed downstream from ... THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS! Pretty incredible huh?

And no, I didn't already know that. I looked it up. Here's a link:

Someone asked :"What makes the sand white on the "Emerald Coast" of Florida?"? - Yahoo! Answers

Oh, crap. I hope this doesn't mean we're gonna have a Tri-State Sand War now...

[girlenigma]

I'm spoiled having lived in hawaii for a good many years but, i have to say tybee would be at the very bottom for me and jekyll somewhere near the top. last time i went to jekyll there were dolphins out very close to shore and it kind of made me reminisce, though whales would have been better ~_^

[Hypnosis]

I like Long Beach and Jones Beach

[GRS86]

I personally like Jekyll!!