There are so many things to see and do on Dauphin Island. You only need to give up the need for over-stimulation, to decide to take a relaxing, get away from it all king of vacation to realize all that Dauphin Island has to offer.
Rob Nykvist recently took a few hours to remind us just how beautiful this place is to those of us who call it our vacation home away from home.
This shot of a Morning Glory bloom was taken in late August on Dauphin Island, the height of the summer season.
For more shots like this one and to read a complete recap of Rob's recent tour around Dauphin Island by Kayak you should visit his web site here.
Mobile Area paddler Rob Nykvist has been out and around Dauphin Island in his kayak again recently.
Remember late last year when Sand Island, also known as Pelican Island, had grown to intersect the Dauphin Island Fishing Pier? We enjoyed the idea of building stairs from the end of the pier to the sand below. Well that no longer looks like it was such a good idea. Rob's photos clearly shows that Sand Island is now no easy walk from the Dauphin Island Fishing Pier.
One of the photos on Rob's site also offers a good view from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico of the Holiday Isle condo development in progress. The Dauphin Island Beach Club and The Inn at Dauphin Island are the condo buildings immediately to the left, or west, of the Holiday Isle construction site.
Chandler Robbins recently attended an Association of Field Ornithologists meeting at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory. Mr. Robbins is known for his pioneering work in the field of Ornithology. He quite literally wrote the book on bird identification. His birders reference, Birds of North America: A Guide To Field Identification, is a standard among birders' worldwide.
Among Mr. Robbins' accomplisments are:
During his visit to the conference Mr. Robbins was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle:
Ornithologist revolutionized the study of birds and their surroundings
Chandler Robbins, 88, has been called the father of modern ornithology.
He pioneered the study of bird distribution and bird migration, and is best known to four decades of birders as the senior author of Birds of North America: A Guide To Field Identification, in publication since 1966 and revised in 2001
The 74th Annual Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo takes place this weekend. For many it's been one of life's staples for years. For some it's been that way for decades.
For Purvis Wildberger and his family the Annual Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo has been a part of life since the year the tournament started in 1929.
Purvis Wildberger has fished in every Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo and he'll be out this weekend chasing tarponWithout fail, Purvis Wildberger has fished every Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. When No. 74 starts Friday at Dauphin Island, the 85-year-old from Mobile plans to be in the boat with his son, Billy, chasing the elusive tarpon, the fish that started it all.
This is one party that just reading about it is a whole lot of fun. No mistake, it would have been better to have been there.
Coincidentally - or maybe not - I had my own variation of the BLT just yesterday for lunch. My recipe is a little simpler than the norm. I leave off the lettuce. I save it for a salad where it belongs.