The Gulf is calling...

Hey everyone! 
Y'all know by now how much we love the ocean.  A week ago we headed south.  Arrived at Gulf State Park on Monday. We are between Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama.  We chose this park for several reasons.  Our neighbors Dan and Donna told us about it and our cousins Kennen and Terri were just down here, told us how wonderful it was.  So here we are and  thoroughly enjoying ourselves.

Our friends from Austin, Dave and Anita, met us here for a few days.  We enjoyed walking the beach and riding the bike trails with them.

Gulf State Park has 25 miles of bike trails.  We've ridden 28 miles so far.  The paths ramble through the low country vegetation on paved trails and boardwalks crossing marshes and bogs.  It's absolutely wonderful.

This is Lefty the alligator, we rode right past him. He was about 6 foot long.  He didn't seem to mind sharing his space with us.

Gulf state park owns and manages a fishing pier.

Just in case you were wondering how far away you are from home.

We took a fishing 101 pier class, this was our instructor, Shanna, she also taught the kayak class we took

Sam the pelican was breaking the law...

Even if you don't catch a thing the view is breathtaking

We went fishing last night, Rog caught a catfish....we will try again soon for something we actually want to catch!

This is from our kayak class, Anita managed to stay dry!  She was nervous though.  It was fun.

Here are a few other pics from our last week.

Going for a walk by the gulf

We did find a brew pub, Big Beach Brewing, excellent brew!

And that friends, is all we wrote for this post, we are just kickin back and on Bama time.  

Take care and be well!