Monday, October 17, 2016

Georgia, Stone Mountain - Monday, October 17, 2016 - Stone Mountain Park


I’m playing catch up on my blog posts today.  Our internet reception has been poor so even though I wrote blogs the past two days, I couldn’t get them published until today.  We’ll be leaving Stone Mountain in the morning, not sure just yet where we will end up tomorrow, just know it will be somewhere west of here.  Our biggest accomplishment today was an hour walk.



We are headed to the Stone Mountain Golf Club.  The walk there has the golf course on one side.



And, Stone Mountain on the other.  Couldn’t ask for a better fall day, it is in the high 70’s here.



Our turnaround point was the Stone Mountain Golf Club.  Several hills between where we started and here.  They have a big golf outing going on today for the Krystal Company.



Keeping these bushes trimmed to say “Stone Mountain Golf Club” just might be a fulltime job for someone.



The restaurant at the club has some outside seating on the deck with some really good views.



I’m not sure this guy is enjoying the view but he certainly seems to be enjoying the sunshine.



The Carillon which is in the park across the lake can be seen from the golf club.  The Carillon is an instrument containing 732 bells of 12 different types.  It is made of steel alloy and redwood.  The tower stretches to 13 stories.  The Carillon was built in Germany in 1962 and was exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1964.  It was donated to the public by Coca Cola in 1965.



The Lake Front Pavilion on the golf club property can be rented for private parties.  Or when it isn’t rented it can be a nice place to rest before heading back home.



You can watch the cable cars go up and down Stone Mountain.



Or, you can ponder how trees manage to grow out of solid granite.


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