Its final time to be seen in Mobile Bay, LCS 38, or the future USS Pierre, passes Gaillard Island the morning of OCT 10th 2025, while heading to assignment with the US Navy. The 418 foot by 104 foot vessel is the last Independence class variant warship to be built for the Navy by Austal…
Saga Fortune, a 655 foot by 105 general cargo vessel sailing under the flag of Bahamas, heads out of Mobile Bay the afternoon of OCT 9th 2025 as it begins a dayโs voyage to Port Manatee, FL. With a draught of 30 feet, the ship moves at 13 mph. According to ship manifests, Saga Fortune…
End of the day over Mobile Bay, Alabama on OCT 7th 2025. Photo by David Black
Boogeying, line dancing, slow dancing, you name it. Good turnout and tons of fun at Fairhope’s OCT 3rd 2025 First Friday/Art Walk celebration featuring music by The Groovinatorsโฆ
As October settles in, the drop in the number of hours of daylight becomes more obvious. By Halloween, the length of day will have shortened by almost one hour compared to the start of the month. Sunrise in Fairhope, which occurs at 6:45am on the first, moves to 7:05am by the 31st. Another big change…
๐พ๐ก๐ค๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ช๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐ฎ: The future USS Pierre heads out of Mobile Bay the morning of SEP 30 2025 to begin a series of crew familiarization exercises. Built by Mobile-based Austal USA, Littoral Combat Ship or LCS 38 (as itโs currently named), is the nineteenth and last of the Independence class-variants to be…
Taking advantage of a spring-like breeze on Mobile Bay on SEP 24 2025. Mobile’s skyline is roughly fourteen miles away. Photo shot from Fairhope.
Gentle Seas, a 656 foot by 105 foot bulk carrier sailing under the flag of Liberia, passes Gaillard Island on the way into Mobileโs McDuffie coal terminal the morning of SEP 24 2025. With a draught of 22 feet, the ship moves at 13 mph while finishing a sixteen day voyage that began SEP 8th…
A US Coast Guard CASA HC-144A Ocean Sentry flies north along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay the morning of SEP 15 2025. Captured about 3,400 feet high, the aircraft moves at a ground speed of 171 knots or 196 mph. A fixed-wing dual turboprop aircraft, the Ocean Sentry is recognized for its ability to…
Monarch butterflies spend time along the eastern shore SEP 14th 2025. The monarch population across eastern north America migrates each autumn from the north and central US and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico, covering distances that can be thousands of miles. Monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains often head to southern California, but have…