Tybee Vacation Information Center

Tybee Vacation Rentals hosted a holiday open house and property owner’s reception in conjunction with the Tybee Island Shop and Stroll on December 6th from 3-7pm. The event was great fun! There was wonderful eats, great company, Santa, a free photo booth and the Tybee Arts Association also opened their special holiday art show upstairs.

There was a great turnout for the event… a wonderful mix of young and young at heart. If you attended or you just want some great laughs take a look at the photo gallery of pictures from the free photo booth. The owners put together a prop box so people could get wacky if they wanted and as you will see people took full advantage.

Click below to view the photo album. You can view, download and order print directly.

Tybee Vacation Rentals Holiday Open House Photo Booth

Here is another gallery of photos taken at the event:

Tybee Vacation Rentals Holiday Open House

Thanks again to everyone that attended!

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The Tybee Island Historical Society completed the Light Station complex when it finished the Assistant Keeper’s Cottage this week. It took about $2 million dollars, four major construction projects and 14 years to finish the 10-year plan. Mr. Cullen Chambers, the Society’s executive director, was in charge of the restoration and has earned Continue Reading »

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Tybee’s first annual Shop and Stroll was a smash success. What bargains! What fun! Every shop outdid themselves in presenting the best and brightest. Santa greeted everyone and Tybee Vacation Rentals’ picture booth was a hoot! The annual event was a smash success and next year will be even better. Plan on next year to  shop the shops, meet the neighbors, stop in the businesses for bargains and deals and eat and be merry. They’ll be santa, drawings for prizes and surprises. 

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It’s official. According to Creative Loafing Atlanta readers, Tybee Island was voted “Best Beach Retreat” in the newspapers Raging Elections Best of Atlanta ’08 section. Tybee Island was also recently honored by the readers of Georgia Magazine as the “Best Beach”!

Only 4 hours from downtown Atlanta, Tybee is an ideal weekend getaway. Now that the season is slowing down and the island reverts back to the locals, it’s the perfect time to escape the city and come to the coast for some “Tybee Time.” Check out Tybee Vacation Rentals for that perfect vacation home, cottage or condo. Most properties have only a 2 night minimum in the off season months and they offer a 10% Last Minute Discount!

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Over the next four months or so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will pump 1.2 million cubic yards of sand–enough to fill 750 football fields a foot deep–onto Tybee’s beaches. This high-quality sand will come from nearby, about a mile and a half offshore. So it will be a close match to our original sand, safe for native plants and animals. We perform this feat every 6-10 years as we need to “feed” the beaches with sand to combat the erosion from storms and the sea.

Approved by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, a 320-foot dredge with an 11,300-h.p. motor will suck sand up from the ocean floor, then pump it onto the beach. The sand comes onto the beach at great force through 30-inch wide pipes. You’ll see the huge pipes spewing sand noisily onto the beach, with the force of an avalanche. It will take about 50 people, working around the clock for up to 4 months to get all the sand in place.

THE EQUIPMENT AND ONRUSHING SAND CAN VE VERY DANGEROUS, SO BE SURE TO STAY OUT OF THE WORK AREAS, WHICH WILL BE CLEARLY MARKED, AT ALL TIMES.

The project has begun at 7th Street and will continue in phases until about February 2009. Parking lots on 14th and 16th/Tybrisa Streets will remain open, however some other streets, parking areas and beaches will be closed temporarily as the work progresses.

When the work is done, our beaches will offer more room for sunning, strolling and seabird and turtle nesting, plus people, plants and animals will be safer, AND there will likely be thousands of new shells, sharks’ teeth and other exciting finds.

Schedule
Phase 1 - Gulick St. to 7th St.
Phase 2 - 7th St. to 12 St.
Phase 3 - 12th St. to 16th/Tybrisa Sts.
Phase 4 - 16th/Tybrisa Sts. to 19th St.

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