The next day Jim and Sue took us on a tour of Mobile and the coast. We went past the USS Alabama Bat

We are going to catch up with a couple we met at Red Bay, Alabama when we visited the Tiffin factory - Jim and Sue. They were interested in keeping in touch as were we. We have exchanged emails. They have invited us to their home town of Spanish Fort which is across the bay from Mobile. When we are set up we give them a ring.
They visit us at the park. How nice it is to see them again. We have a common interest in Tiffin motor homes. They have a 36ft Tiffin. It is great to exchange tales of our travels and the peculiarities of RVing. Yes - we have all watched the Robyn Williams movie "RV"!
We go out for dinner to the Oyster House, a seafood restaurant on the Battleship Parkway. My meal of flounder fillets comes with Hush Puppies, Cheese Grits and 2 sides - Turnip Greens and coleslaw. It is all delicious! I haven't had grits before; they are different! We each have a winerita - a margarita with a drizzle of merlot!! Sounds bizarre but it was delicious and I know it will become a favorite!!
The next day Jim and Sue took us on a tour of Mobile list of all las vegas hotels and the coast. We went past the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, the massive list of all las vegas hotels Austal facility (yes the same Austal that is based in Fremantle), down oak lined streets in Downtown Mobile where the trees reach out and touch in the middle of the street, past restored antebellum homes and then, via Hwy 193 and the Dauphin Island Bridge to Dauphin Island.
The Dauphin Island bridge is a 3 mile 2 lane bridge which crosses the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from the mainland to Dauphin Island - a barrier island. It is an amazing bridge list of all las vegas hotels and as high as it looks!!
Mobile Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, is the 4th largest estuary in the US. It is 413 sq miles in area; 31 miles long and has a maximum width of 24 miles. We felt as if we were on an ocean; we certainly could not see the top of the bay!
The Bay has an interesting history - too extensive list of all las vegas hotels to summarise here. It has been affected by numerous hurricanes, the most recent list of all las vegas hotels being Hurricane list of all las vegas hotels Katrina in August, 2005 which pushed list of all las vegas hotels a massive storm surge into the Bay. Thousands of boats, piers and beach houses were damaged by waves exceeding 22 feet high!
Jim told us of a natural, somewhat mysterious phenomenon called a 'Jubilee' which occurs on warm summer nights, when fish and crabs swarm in large numbers towards the shore to be easily harvested by people wading in the shadows.