Savannah River

We rode up the river for about an hour.

Just so you know, my boat was running around 70 miles an hour most of the time, so we was way up the Savannah River before we came up to a cove on the right side of the lake.

For miles and miles, there was no houses or roads up past the 378 bridge on the right side of the lake, which is the South Carolina side of the lake.

We pulled in about 6:15 that morning.

And no, I couldn't see the thing that was throwing the rocks.

It was too thick to see that far in the tree line from the lake.

Another note, I told only a few friends of what happened to me, and one of my friends said, "That happened to my uncle about three years ago." So I called his uncle, and he said, "I haven't told anyone but family and asked them not to say anything about what I saw that day." All he would tell me was, "I will never fish that part of the Savannah River again." I asked, "What part?" "You pass up 378 bridge about three miles on the South Carolina side of the river." I then told him about what happened to me, and he said one more thing.

"It chased my boat down running beside the bank, and I was running as fast as the boat would go." He wouldn't tell me anything else.

But that's what I thought about when you try to get into the woods all sneaky, quiet like and here they come anyway.

I went to one of those places like Rick is talking about just across the Savannah River.

I mean, just when you cross over Savannah, you're in South Carolina and they have gators and stuff there, too.

And the guys took me out in the morning.

James Brown, the singer, songwriter, bandleader, and dancer who indelibly transformed 20th century music, died early yesterday in Atlanta.

He was 73 in Beach Island, South Carolina, across Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia.

Okay, you and I

talked about this a little bit ahead of time.

Um, "...

in the broader triathlon world, but a triathlete was recently bit by an alligator on a training swim in Savannah River while training for the Augusta 70.3."

This popped up on my newsfeed.

[laughs] Did it?

So I'm just looking at Savannah on the map.

So it's in the, as you said, southeast of the United States, but it's on the sort of eastern tip of the state of Georgia, isn't it? So it's just a hop and a skip across the river, right? The Savannah River to South Carolina.

So what's the difference between Georgia and South Carolina culturally? Is there a difference or is there a lot of similarity?

Charleston, a big city in South Carolina, is a little similar to Savannah in terms of that it's a very old historic town on the water.

Besides all this, the heavy baggage which the men and horses carried weighed them down and made the journey almost impossible.

De Soto, however, kept bravely on, encouraging his men as best he could, and at last reached the Savannah River.

Here he changed his course to westward, hoping to find gold in that direction.

Week after week, month after month, the Spaniards traveled on through a dense wilderness, enduring great hardships and finding nothing but tribes of hostile Indians.