2014 Vacation - Day 5

We have experienced Florida!  and we are only half way across the Florida Gulf Coast but we are enjoying the views, the water and the sights.  There was only one hour trouble today where traffic in one town came to a crawl.  We stopped.  We inched two miles down the road in about an hour's time.

You won't believe this but the crowd and traffic conditions were due to a Mullet Throw.

A Mullet Throw, of all things.   

 

http://www.florabama.com/events/192-the-interstate-mullet-toss-and-gulf-coast-s-greatest-beach-party

 

Well, the laugh is on me.  On Ourselves.  We only knew a mullet to be a hair style and we thought the "Mullet Toss" was a symbol of College Days gone by.  Of folks making fun of the old hair style.  Throwing hair.  Oh My Gosh!  Were we ever wrong -- even tho we had a great laugh all day about throwing Mullets! 

 

 

internet photo

 

A mullet is a FISH! 

 

Notice this fisherman is sporting only ONE mullet. 

 

 

Putting the Mullet Case on ice (haha pun intended)  the rest of the day was a great, full, touristy, Florida sort of day:

 

Palm Trees

 



 

Entertaining Architecture

 



Sky

 



and

 

Sky and Water

 

 

Sky and highways

Bridges, sky, water and highway.

 

Himself said that today he saw more bridges and water than any other day in his life;

perhaps Himself saw more bridges and water today than he had in his ENTIRE life. 

 



We saw all things nautical and seafaring and sea worthy.

 In eastern Alabama, we drove down to the coast, across a long bridge to Dauphin Island. Did I say a Long Bridge?  The island is not a deserted, barren island as we had imagined.  It had houses, and people and hotels and stores and tourist information.  and a Gumbo Cookoff. We didn't wait for the Gumbo to be done and tasted  but there was a party atmosphere on that there island!

We found that the Ferry would take us from the other end of Dauphin Island over the gulf waters to Gulf Shore, Alabama.  The Ferry held about 27 - 59 vehicles.  We were number 9, in line.  In addition, they loaded any extra motorcycles that came along and pedestrians also buy $5.00 passes to carry them over and back.  We saw a family on their bicycles who were going over to Dauphin Island to ride.  What a great way to spend a Saturday, we thought.

We paid $20.50 to ride the ferry one way.  It was well worth it to us.

Himself and I have ridden ferries together, probably five times.  We are discussing this number and will come out with a revised number once we reach a consensus. haha   My dad would drive miles out of his way to ride a ferry so I rode ferries many a vacation as a child. 

This Ferry ride took about 30 minutes.  Folks were mainly social, most got out of their vehicles and took photos or stood at the rails and watched the sea gulls and the water. 

Caution!  Water, humidity and wind may cause Bad Hair Days! 

 

 

Himself took this great photo over Perdido Beach as we were sitting in stopped traffic, cooling our jets, waiting for the mullet to be thrown . . . or actually, for the people to get out of the street to go celebrate the Mullet Toss.  This photo may be a County Fair selection! 

 

What a great day!  And tomorrow will provide more coast time as we move on to Daytona Beach!