Gulf Shore Getaway

Photo from Bayou La Batre, near Dauphin Island

From Bayou La Batre, near Dauphin Island.

Spring Break is Upon Us - Part 2

After a long and cold winter in the north spring fever is upon us. Across the US it is the traditional season for spring break. Everywhere you look families and college students are packing up and headed to warmer climates for a week of vacation at the beach.

Gulf Coast vacation destinations from Destin to Dauphin Island are ready and waiting for the surge of visitors and vacationers intent on getting a healthy springtime tan, playing a little beach volleyball with friends and family, taking a swim in the Gulf of Mexico, and otherwise relaxing and getting away from it all.

Think They'll Call it the Shipwreck Cafe?

A 40 foot long, seven ton fragment of the Robert H. Dixey found under a West End Dauphin Island rental house recently has a future as the centerpiece of a Dauphin Island eatery.

The huge fragment had been washed up by last season's storms. It had slammed into and destroyed or damaged some of the vacation rental houses on Dauphin Island's West End. It was recently found buried in the sand beneath one of the houses it damaged.

A Mobile area archaeologist had made plans to recover it and preserve the artifact. However his plans to recover the ship were scuttled recently due to lack of resources needed for recovery, transportation, storage and preservation.

Now the owners of two Dauphin Island restaurants have offered the use of their restaurant space to store the artifact, In time, this enormous chunk of the 19th century clipper cargo ship Robert H. Dixey is destined to become a centerpiece of the restaurant.

No word on what they intend to name the restaurant.

Holiday Isle Condos

Construction continues on the Holiday Isle Resort. This Dauphin Island condo project is located on Bienville Blvd. directly east of the Dauphin Island Beach Club on the site of the old Holiday Inn. The Holiday Isle is on track for an early 2007 opening.

Dauphin Island to Celebrate "Colonies of the Gulf Coast"

Dauphin Island vacationers should plan a visit to Fort Gaines, as it celebrates the 16th annual "Colonies of the Gulf Coast" next weekend.

You're invited to come on out to the fort on March 4th and 5th between 9am to 5pm to see and experience for yourself what life was like on Isle Dauphine in the 1700's and 1800's.There will be British and Spanish soldiers on hand to practice drills, including cannon firing

Fort Gaines Historic Site is located on the eastern end of Dauphin Island. Admission for adults is $5. Kids get in for $3, or free if under age 4

Dauphin Island Sunset

Sunsets on the Gulf Coast... we never get tired of them. They're the finest in the world. Be sure to bring your camera on your next gulf shores vacation.

Peaking Through, posted today in tephdra's photostream Click on the image for a larger version.