We left Rabbit Island and arrived at Ocean Springs, Mississippi about 4:00 PM. It's not much of a marina as it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina but we rode our bikes to the main street of the old town and it is very charming and quaint. We ran into two people who saw us docking and one was a tugboat captain who gave us a little inforomation about the town. It was established in the late 1600's and has numerous fresh water springs - thus the name Ocean Springs. This morning we took a long walk along the beach and through the neighborhood and you could still see damaged homes and evidence of where homes used to be before the hurricane. We even saw one destroyed house with the letters FEMA and numbers sprayed on in black paint. This morning before we left an elderly gentleman stopped by to talk with us. It seems he was a boater for many years and was very familiar with our plans. He gave us some advice and visited with us for about an hour.
We traveled all day through Mississippi Sound and are currently anchored off Dauphine Island. It was quite a rough crossing and we are still rocking and rolling. As thunderstorms are predicted for tomorrow afternoon, we plan to leave very early in the morning head for Orange Beach where we're scheduled to have some work done on the boat.
OOOPS - error by Capt Mike who inadvertently erased Kathy's pictures.
Beginning in the Spring of 2011, this is a story of a journey in our 36' Heritage East Trawler as we cruise The Great Loop, a circumnavigation of Eastern North America, along the shoreline of the United States and Canada - truly a trip of a lifetime.
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