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Photo Time from the Gulf Shores

After goofing off for a while after dinner... including a night-time stroll on the beach to chat with my girlfriend on the phone... I have finally finished a selection of photos for your viewing pleasure.

Not only that... but the newspaper has used nearly everything I sent for the day in the print edition. And you can still go check out the gallery online as well.

Now... here we go.

Like I said earlier... we are right on the beach in a big condo.

Our place is the one on the left. It's 15 floors high and about 300 yards from the edge of the ocean. The view from our balcony is awesome to say the least.

That is the wooden foot bridge over the dunes and natural habitat area between the hotel and the shoreline.

Just for good measure... I took a night shot as well. Not the best in the world, but you'll get the idea.

The entire area along the gulf coast is booming with construction of these huge high-rise condos. Just the kind of place I wouldn't want to be near during a Hurricane Katrina kind of thing. I counted no less than 20 buildings in the immeadiate vicinity of our place.

Are there really that many rich people that want to live on the Alabama gulf coast? Maybe so. It seems awesome enough aleady.

That is the view down the beachfront to the west.

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I told you that I got my feet wet in the ocean earlier... now here is the proof.

Yeah... the water was a bit cold. And that wave kinda suprised me a bit, I didn't think it'd be that high up my pants. They are still drying out in the bathtub as I write.

When I went back down there for a night walk... I changed into the shorts that were more apt to take the water in stride.

I do plan on swimming in the ocean at one point. At least... going out enough to get my head underwater, just to say that I did it.
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AND..... a bit of the wildlife in the area.

Of course... one would expect the shorebirds to be hanging around like they own the place.

There's a couple of gulls hanging out on the sand with our condo building in the background.

And here's a brown pelican cruising over the water.

But THIS one made me smile. All of a sudden, out of the blue water come these two dolphins. They were jumping out of the water left and right. It was great.

Of course... I didn't have my big zoom lens (the mighty 400mm f2.8) out there with me at the time, or this would have been a lot closer of a photo.

But it doesn't matter.... it was really really cool to see it out in the wild.

I'm sure I'll have more stuff to show off after a few hours in the morning and afternoon... until then.

peeeeeeace.....

Posted by Jason Palmer at 11:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)