There's plenty to do if you're talking outdoors...the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers offer a variety of water activities, and the islands off the coast are filled with wildlife if you're into photography and such. St. Simon's Island off of Brunswick has wonderful restaurants and shops, while Jekyll Islands boasts some great fishing.
Statesboro is home to Georgia Southern and I had a by god ball there, lol. I'm not certain you can appreciate it the way I do, however.
If you want to experience SoGa, go to Benton Lee's on the Altamaha at Gray's Landing. You can get the biggest steak you ever tried to eat and some fresh gator if you're so inclined. IIRC, you love to kayak...the Altamaha is a great place to do it. From Wiki...
"Although used in the 19th century as a route for commerce between central Georgia and the coast, the river is nearly entirely still in its natural state, and was designated a bioreserve by The Nature Conservancy in 1991.
The Altamaha River flows through a flood plain up to five miles (8 km) wide, consisting of some of the last remaining hardwood bottomlands and cypress swamps in the American South. As the river approaches the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes a broad estuary. At least 120 species of rare or endangered plants and animals live in the Altamaha River watershed, including 11 species of pearly mussels, seven of which are endemic to the Altamaha. The river basin also supports the only known example of old-growth longleaf pine and black oak forest in the United States. Other notable species include shortnose sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, West Indian manatee, Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi), greenfly orchid, and Georgia plume.[3] The unusual Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha), now extinct in the wild, was found by John Bartram along the Altamaha River in 1765. Bartram sent seeds from the trees to England and planted some in his garden in Philadelphia,[4] where some still live."
