Birding, beaches on Alabama's isle | Travel | London Free Press

Birding, beaches on Alabama's isle | Travel | London Free Press: "Dauphin Island is one of those places where you could easily go for a day and end up staying a week.

A barrier island on Alabama's Gulf Coast, it's just west of a much bigger and more commercialized one housing the resort communities Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Dauphin's a 45-minute drive from downtown Mobile, less from Interstate 10, which links southern Alabama with Mississippi and Florida."