Beach Therapy

The View from the Condo at Phoenix East on Orange Beach, Alabama

I spent the weekend of August 18-20 at Gulf Shores, Alabama with John Norton and Monica Bertolino. John rented a condo for the weekend because of the Doobie Brothers and Peter Frampton Concert. 

Monica and I took the Ferry from Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island to Ft. Morgan on the west end of Gulf Shores.  (These 2 forts made up the defense of Mobile Bay from the revolutionary war era until WW2) That ferry did not exist when I lived in Mobile and it offers an alternative way to get over to Baldwin COunty Beaches.  It was kinda stormy, but a fun 45 minute ride noetheless.

It was an off-and-on stormy weekend, but we got some good quaity time on the beach and at three pretty good restaurants: Friday evening at Happy Harbor (across from the Flora-Bama), Saturday evening at Ginny Lane at the Wharf, and Sunday at Cobalt on Alabama Point.  Local Seafood (and desserts)are dong violence to my weight loss.  But I am back exercising again.

Me with Monica and John at Happy Harbor

The Mobile Bay Ferry departing the Fort Gaines end of Dauphin Island

That is Ft. Morgan off int he distance (to the right of the ferry bridge) - but this picture really captures how the weather was for the first part of our beach weekend