Georgia Outdoors
Sharon Collins Favorite: The Cockspur Island Lighthouse
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Georgia Outdoors viewers often ask for host Sharon Collins’ favorites. Here, she answers.
Georgia Outdoors viewers know that host Sharon Collins has traveled across the state, and often ask what and where are her personal favorites. Here, she answers. This episode focuses on "a squatty little lighthouse between Savannah and Tybee island...I could sit up here forever."
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Georgia Outdoors
Sharon Collins Favorite: The Cockspur Island Lighthouse
Special | 6m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Georgia Outdoors viewers know that host Sharon Collins has traveled across the state, and often ask what and where are her personal favorites. Here, she answers. This episode focuses on "a squatty little lighthouse between Savannah and Tybee island...I could sit up here forever."
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state, what's your favorite place?
sitting on top between Savannah and Tybee Island.
Lighthouses.
Command.
Attention.
Rising above the water.
Flashing bright.
These towers of light today.
by mariners across the world.
One of my favorites is Cox Spur.
Maybe it's because day rising tides very foundation.
the entrance to Savannah River.
years by air.
You can see how unique she is.
like the prow of a ship.
today.
through water.
front is able to deflect the ocean waves.
surrounded by water.
Today, the friends of Cox up view.
tiny tower.
It is so cute.
She's.
place and that's for sure.
restore Cox Burr to her original glory.
erosion.
as you would see it.
The land.
Wow.
Mud in the sand.
So that's a stop there.
And that's the major thing.
water.
It did?
Well, yeah.
up on the sides already.
laughing at the sand in the mud and washing it out every time.
we've got a solid piece of land.
The oyster better is growing, stability.
Park low tide.
So this is your lighthouse?
There she is.
Yeah.
eventually.
which is going to take some time and also some money.
It's amazing.
Civil War.
The Northern Army Fort Pulaski.
fort.
But Clarksburg was spared.
and the Park Service restoration.
interest into what were they all about?
way home.
over here on the North Channel, they've got wonderful GPS stuff.
that.
sight.
their star became.
the little corks were white.
captain.
Savannah.
Light was no longer needed.
represents is worth the effort.
Wow.
No railings, but cool.
Steady walk.
Yeah.
Got to be careful.
This is kind of scary.
lot of work.
may be the first priority.
die.
Yeah.
if you get killed.
Yeah.
Imagine 1837 touched up due to storms and other things that harmed it.
And she's still here.
tedious work.
by the fact she is in water with every tide.
She's obviously a treasure.
You've never touched her.
inside.
And yet she's.
She's quite a treasure.
have.
It's amazing.
coming to town, all my life, attention.
here.
they were.
you think?
that as one of those things.
together.
And you ready to head down?
then, agreed.
and we'd never get out of here.
the night.
As you discern it hits you.
This lighthouse has stood here almost two centuries.
many people are determined.
Cox Burns.
Light will shine again.
little perch.
You get peace up there, looking out over all that water.
Collins.
And.
And now, you know.
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