Detour

No doubt everyone has heard about all the devistation caused by all the tornados that ripped throug the South last week. On Tuesday (the first day of the outbreak) we were scheduled to leave the Magnolia Branch Wildlife Reserve which is located in Alabama, just a bit North of the Florida Panhandle, and start heading toward PA. Since we were aware of the weather forecast for the area, we decided it would probably not be in our best interest to start heading North. We decided to head South instead, putting a bit more distance between us and the projected path of the storms. We headed to a place we had visited previously in Foley, AL, which is just a bit North of Gulf Shores which lies on the Gulf of Mexico. As it turned out, we suffered no more than two days of high wind advisories and the wind did howl pretty constantly; however, we safely escaped the fury of the storms that rolled to the North of us. As we followed the track of the storms and heard about all the damage, we were so glad we had not headed North, especially since there were several instances of vehicles being blown off the road on the exact Interstates and areas we would have been traveling.
While resting here on our "detour" we have taken some time to explore parts of this area. Traveling to Gulf Shores and heading West until we could go no further, we wound up at the base of Mobile Bay where there is a ferry available to Dauphin Island. A few photos.