Fairhope Witches Ride 2025
Good turnout, nice weather and tons of fun as the Fairhope Witches Ride takes place OCT 30th 2025 through the streets of downtown. Riders pay a fee to participate, with proceeds benefitting the Baldwin Humane Society…
Gulf coast REALTORS
Air Traffic Over Fairhope
Eagles and Poseidons… Photos by David Black
Military In The Air Over Fairhope
US Marines fly a Leonardo AW-119 ‘Thrasher’ over the eastern Shore Monday, while Navy crews practice touch-and-go landings at Brookley Field in Mobile from aboard their Boeing P-8 Poseidon. The helicopters are based out of Naval Air Station Whiting Field, located near Milton, FL, while the Poseidons operate out of NAS Jacksonville, FL…
Preparing To Head South
Monarch butterflies are using The Grand Hotel as their staging area before heading south for the winter. Nectar-rich blooms in the red cluster bottlebrushes allow them to stock up on fuel. The place can get as busy as the gas pumps on a vacation weekend at Buc-ee’s… If you enjoyed this post, we invite you…
Rare Sight On The Road
𝙁𝙪𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠: Don’t see these around much. Am guessing close to sixty years old…
Park Upgrades Nearing Finish
Workers spend OCT 24th 2025 laying sod across the final areas of South Beach park as one of the final stages of the Working Waterfront project underway for over a year. The contractor says the entire park will be open to the public by Thursday. Final installation setup for the new restrooms is Monday. It’s…
Breeze Over Fairhope
Breeze Airways flight 401 passes over Fairhope’s Tatumville Gully late the morning of OCT 23rd 2025 while en route from New Orleans to Jacksonville. From an altitude of 25,000 feet or around 4.75 miles, the Airbus A220 moves at a ground speed of 445 knots or 512 mph during the one hour fifteen minute flight….
Quietly Awaiting Demolition
After being home to numerous businesses including a restaurant, co-op and bakery, Piggly Wiggly and other stores, the old Fairhope Hardware store and mural at the corner of Fairhope Ave and Church St are about to be demolished. Built in 1922, the building most recently housed Fairhope Hardware until closing in 2017. Fairhope artist Ameri’ca…
Kingfisher’s Catfish Perdu
The ‘hankerin’ is for seafood, but not a big, heavy meal. So, Colleen and I stop in for lunch at Kingfisher Seafood restaurant. She goes for the Hawaiian Seafood salad ($18). With salmon, mango, krab stick and tomatoes, it’s one of her favorites. I choose the Catfish Perdu ($20), two fried filets over a bed…
High Up but Low In spirits
Spirit Airlines flight 1522 passes over Fairhope’s Rock Creek the afternoon of OCT 20th 2025 while en route from Tampa to New Orleans. Captured 29,600 feet or about 5.5 miles up, the Airbus A320 moves at a groundspeed of 451 knots or 519 mph during the one hour twenty minute flight. The carrier continues to…