SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Skidaway Island State Park hosted an Arbor Day Tree Hike event for the holiday.
Check out some photos from the hike below!
Ranger Molly Canady discusses the different types of pine trees that grow in Georgia while holding the cone of a Loblolly pine. 
A Loblolly pine with a split in the middle. 
Interpretive Ranger Molly Canady leads the way for the 3 mile hike on Big Ferry Trail. 
Interpretive Ranger Molly Canady looks at a tree that was killed by a lightning strike. 
Live Oak trees can live for hundreds of years. 
Resurrection Fern, as seen in this photo, is not harmful to the trees it grows on. 
While this looks like a cone, this is actually the fruit of the Magnolia Tree. 
Woodpeckers can leave large holes inside trees as they look for bugs to chow down on. 
Sweet gum trees are common in Coastal Georgia. 
The brightly colored patches on this tree are called Christmas Lichen. 
The Sparkleberry plant (also called the Farkleberry plant) is another common plant in Coastal Georgia. The berries it produces are edible, though bitter and seedy. 
The Horned Passalus beetle is capable of pulling 50 times it’s own weight despite only weighing one to two grams.
