A US Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin air crew passes over the eastern shore late Tuesday morning. Part of the Coast Guard’s fleet of aircraft since 1984, Dolphins have undergone upgrades including new engines, digital technology, flight control, weather radar and navigation systems. At least one such upgraded Dolphin is in use at the Coast Guard’s…
𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙙: Even a chilling winter’s wind is not enough to keep some off Mobile Bay…
𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙖:GSL Maria, a 908 foot by 131 foot container ship sailing under the flag of Liberia, heads into the Port of Mobile the afternoon of FEB 17 2025. Moving at 11 mph with a draught 44 feet, the ship finishes a voyage that began JAN 24th from Busan New Port,…
Southwest Airlines flight 3240 passes over Fairhope’s Rock Creek Golf Club Sunday afternoon. Captured descending from 10,700 feet or about two miles high, the Boeing 737 moves at a ground speed of 371 knots or 426 miles per hour while preparing to land in Pensacola following an hour’s flight from Houston. Photo shot from Fairhope,…
Cloud movement (time lapse) over Mobile Bay…
Valentine’s Day on the eastern shore…
If you’ve been hoping to grab a glimpse of the colorful tulips planted at various locations around Fairhope, the bad news is that most of the tulips City of Fairhope horticulture crews planted about a week and a half ago got wiped out by last week’s unseasonably warm weather. The good news is: The people…
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. That’s one of the reasons why Fairhope resident Forrest Beeco is more than happy to hold on to Cali. Short for caliente, which means hot in Spanish, Cali is Beeco’s 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme convertible. With a 350 cubic inch V8 Rocket engine under the hood, Beeco drives…
A friend says, “He made our Army a better place.” Stacey H. Kulp, a past commander of Fairhope’s American Legion Post 199, died FEB 11 2025 of a heart attack. I knew Stacey from the Legion after we moved to Fairhope. In addition to his military career, Stacey ran businesses specializing in cleanup, mold remediation…
On the other side of the Atlantic: A familiar sight in Mobile, the cruise ship Carnival Spirit, off duty from carrying passengers, has passed through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea this afternoon. Spirit is on its way to a Thursday arrival at a shipyard in Marseilles, France where it will go into…