By Christine Tibbetts
Water, water every which-way around Alabama’s Gulf coast gave my October beach vacation more dimensions than imagined.
Going to the beach generally offers up an inter coastal waterway as well as an ocean but this stretch of Alabama also has five bays plus the big Mobile Bay, several lakes and a lagoon named Little which looked pretty big to me.
Want to stay on the water? Better be specific when you book a condo or rent a house since there are so many kinds of water to enjoy.
Best I could tell, they all lend to sitting and staring, strolling and resting up to get ready for the next meal. The food is every bit as abundant as the waters and even though I concentrated on seafood every lunch and dinner, I saw plenty of beef choices on the menus.
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are the big town names in Alabama’s enormous Baldwin County; Magnolia Springs is the tiny treasure and I never got to Foley to check it out.
I did get out in the waters, looking at the Gulf and bays from two of the many boating options.
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