Today we drove from Miramar, Florida, to Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Sooo... is he checking the weather, or looking for something on Craigslist that he can stop and pick up, en route?
View from our 3rd-floor room at Candlewood Suites.
Jets from either the nearby Eglin Air Force Base or Hurlburt Field
It's so high, the morning haze nearly blocks it from view.
Double-decker bus
The sand here is white as snow.
Some has been blown into dunes.
Garden St. Fabrics & Design, and Buffalo Chips
Camp Walton Schoolhouse Museum 1912-1936
St. Simon's on the Sound Episcopal Church
Just can't get away from politicians!
Texting
Cargo ship out of the Marshall Islands, the Nor Goliath
Her gross tonnage is 25,812 tons.
Nor Goliath won't be back in the Pensacola Port until September.
Cormorants
The structure of cormorant feathers decreases buoyancy and thus facilitates underwater pursuit of fishes. Their plumage is not water-repellent. Therefore, they must sunbathe and dry those feathers frequently, or they could actually drown.
600 South Barracks Street Seville Harbour Marina & Fish House
Now, that's a real, honest-to-goodness anchor, not one of those pretty 'coloring-book anchors' with which people decorate their yards now and then.
New 'sign' for Joe Patti's World Famous Seafood Market & Restaurant
Pensacola Lighthouse
In the giftshop
Unfortunately, we couldn't go up inside the lighthouse, as it was being renovated.
Look, I caught a pelican!
Larry 'greeted' it first before posing with it.
The pelican remained unamused.
Pensacola Lighthouse House
Looking across the water to the Gulf Islands National Seashore
We can see the walls of Fort Pickens over there. Too bad we didn't have time to go see it.
Pensacola National Naval Aviation Museum
Lieutenant General Duane D. Thiessen greeted us, chatted with us for a little while, and then offered to take our picture.
You can read about it here.
Paper wasp
Look, look! Larry found the toys!
Attempting to make all the beads spin at once...
And this is the face he made when we told him we needed to continue on to Hanger One.
Mazda 370Z
Parasol West
Souvenir City, Shrimp Basket
R Bistro & Pastry
Traders
Oyster House
Ralph & Kacoo's Seafood Restaurant
Hot & Spicy Boiled Crawfish
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial on Mobile Bay
Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel, BankTrust Building, Battle House Tower, Mobile AL
RSA BankTrust Building & RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, AL
This road is called The Old Spanish Trail, and the bridge, heading northwest, is the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge over the Mobile River. The Saint Louis Reach is to the north, where Chickasaw Creek spills into the Mobile.
Overseas Samar
Landscaping method gone amok?
Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Yvonne Kennedy Business Technology Center
Government Street United Methodist Church
Mason Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ
Room at Hilton Gardens Inn in Pascagoula, Mississippi
Oh my goodness you were taking pictures of my neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think of all those beautiful oaks lining Government St.in Mobile?
I fell in love with them the first time I saw them.
Yes, they are lovely. I particularly loved all the big, stately old homes. :-)
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