After the first day of class, it was time to begin exploring. I drove west from the base and down through Perdido Key, where apparently a lot of Navy pilots live. Nice, expensive strip of sand with a lot of houses built to withstand high water and hurricanes.
Among these was a junky-looking 2,000-sq-ft home that was being sold for a paltry $630,000 (not the one pictured above).
Most of the way down Perdido Key, I crossed into Alabama. That's a first!
After passing through Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, the road ended at Fort Morgan, which historically guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay. The fort was closed because it was after 5pm, so this is what was at the end of the road.
I had forgotten that the Gulf Coast is a major oil and natural gas drilling area, and there were dozens of oil platforms off the coast and in the bay itself.
Just to the right of those platforms is Dauphin Island, a popular vacation spot.
There were several large, dead fish on the beach.
And hundreds of jellyfish everywhere.
Herons seem to be on patrol on every beach around here.
I chatted with a local fisherman. He said people typically catch redfish, snapper, or whatever happens to get caught.
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