Alabama, Robertsdale February 6 - 20

Styx River RV Resort near Robertsdale, Alabama.  This is one of our two week stays.  Kay let me go play Texas-holdem every night.  Only won two times but had a lot of fun and made lots of new friends.  From the campground we could drive about 30 miles to the Gulf Coast.  We made several trips doing that.  On one of the trips we were checking out a State Campground on the coast and met some fellow kayakers from Colorado so we made plans to go with them the next day to kayak in the marshland in Bon Secour National Wildlife Reserve.  We were on the Bon Secour Bay side of the island.  The bay water was as smooth as glass.  The best part of the trip was seeing so many dolphins.  We got very close to them, but trying to take a picture of them proved to be quite difficult.  We did get a lot of fins though.

 Robertsdale, Alabama

On one of our trips we took the ferry from Bon Secour N.W.R. to Dauphin Island and drove up the Mobile side of the bay. 

This oil drilling platform was located right off the end of the ferry loading ramp.  There are a bunch of them in Mobile Bay.

One of the big grain or coal freighters.  This one could be at least 1000 feet long.

Interesting look at the GPS in the truck as we were on the ferry.

From the top: 5:52 is the time we should get back to the camper.

1:23  How long it will take us to get to the camper.

53.7 miles back to the camper.

4:29 the current time,   9 mph is the speed of the ferry

1.6 miles is the distance to where the ferry will dock and we get off.  It looks like we're driving on water.   Thought you would enjoy this.

This sunset was taken on Dauphin Island after we got off the ferry.

I thought Kay would look good along with the sunset.

Sunset,  waves,  beach

This is Kay's attempt to take a picture of downtown Mobile from the moving truck.  I liked it.

Young brown pelican

Birds on the beach

More good looking stuff on the beach

A squirrel on the ladder on the back of the camper and the dogs watching it out the back window.  The window is mirrored glass so you can not see in from the outside during the day.  The squirrel has no idea the dogs are only a foot away from it.

Had to take this one.  We stopped along the river where people like to fish.  Obviously some of them had a hard time getting their lines out into the water.

Looking west at Mobile downtown from the bridge over the bay.

This was a goooooood place to eat.  They have a guy that throws hot rolls across the room for you to catch and eat.  They were almost as good as Grandma Moellers.

This is one of the guys that throw the rolls.  He was very good.

Kay getting ready to dig into her supper, fried chicken, sweet potato, hot apples, and the hot roll.  Most of the supper went home with us because she filled up on the rolls.

Warren and Carol Singleton from Colorado getting ready to kayak the Bon Secour Bay near Mobile.

Carol

Warren

Pelican just taking off

Dolphin fin one of many

more dolphin

A Great Blue Heron sitting in the dead tree.

Kay and Carol.  The water was so smooth.

Kay liked this lonely pine tree in the middle of the marsh island.

This is our launch site.  It may look like the car is in the water, but it is not but very close.

I found Ton Hanks' Wilson

This is a bridge across the Styx River near our campground.  Kay and I put in here to kayak out into the Mobile Bay marsh land.

This is a look at the marshland water ways in the bay.

Marty trying to get a knot out of his new fishing reel.  Good thing there is no sound to this picture.

An old pier

I have no idea what this is, but Kay liked them.

More of Kay's flowers.

Zoe after her new hair cut. 

Maxwell had a hair cut also.