If you haven't already done so, mark your calendar for the weekend of October 19-22. That's the weekend of this year's Alabama Coastal BirdFest, which promises to be the biggest and best ever.
This year’s Alabama Coastal BirdFest will include nearly 20 great tours on the 240-mile long Alabama Coastal Birding Trail. It's an outstanding opportunity to get a guided visit to the Alabama Gulf Coast's best birding spots at the perfect time of the year for birding.
The 2006 Alabama Coastal BirdFest will also play host to two evening events sure to please, and a free day-long Bird & Conservation Expo.
At BirdFest’s opening night reception on Thursday, Oct. 19th, a panel of three distinguished ornithologists will discuss Hurricanes & Habitat: How Wildlife Survives. The panel includes
This year we are repeating some of our most popular tours from past festivals, and adding something new. We have three new tours to Dauphin Island that include an excursion on Mobile Bay on the Dauphin Island Sea Lab research vessel, the A.E. Verrill, a 65-foot ocean-going craft. Not only will we see the birds of Mobile Bay, but marine biologists from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab will be with us to examine specimens caught in a trawl.
- John Borom, president of Mobile Bay Audubon Society
Registration for the 2006 Alabama Coastal BirdFest is now open.
It's been more than 13 months since ol' what's her name flooded and closed the Isle Dauphine golf course on Dauphin Island. The back nine opened just a few short months after the storm, but the front nine sustained much more damage.
Many a snowbird will rest easier knowing their winter golf needs will not go unmet now that the entire course will be open for play again.
Isle Dauphine front nine set to re-open
Holes bordering the Gulf of Mexico that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina have been repaired and will be open for public play on Oct. 17
Rob Nykvist was up early recently and captured some of Dauphin Island's early morning beauty.
If you check his web site you'll find that one of his most recent kayaking adventures started out from Dauphin Island before sunrise. Rob's photos of the Dauphin Island sunrise from out on the Gulf of Mexico are simply stunning.
The image is one of the pop-up storms which took place later in the morning. Check Rob's site for other photos of far away storms, Dauphin Island beaches and a few glimpses of the life and beauty of Dauphin Island.
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.
This weekend the 27th annual Sertoma/Pepsi Family Fishing Rodeo will take place on Dauphin Island at Dauphin Island Marina.
Anglers will compete in 18 separate categories including flounder, red snapper, king and Spanish mackerel. Of special note to anglers are the jackpot payouts for particular categories:
With fishing all along the Alabama Gulf Coast as good as it has been this summer, one or more records are bound to fall. This is also the last hurrah for summer - the labor day weekend. Better get on out to Dauphin Island and enjoy a great weekend of fishing at the 27th annual Sertoma/Pepsi Family Fishing Rodeo.