Awesome report! Love the mullet catch! It's like the all you can eat mullet special at Rusty's!
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 6:06 AM Thomas Spencer <tspencer@planetbama.com> wrote:
Peter, Tom and Ivy arrived on Friday night. Tom and Ivy took Alabama 5 and 43 to avoid traffic south of Birmingham. We did avoid the traffic, but the alternative takes longer, pleasant, beautiful, no stops, but longer. Especially considering that Ivy got pulled over in Dallas County. Escaped with a warning.
Sill, lovely. Got to see the signs to Africatown coming in and the Bay.
House in excellent condition.
Saturday long walk on the beach. Still quiet as the4th of July crowd had not arrived.
Mullet school up and down the beach. Water clear. Rays also in the move. Dolphins in large numbers.
Sand dollars covered the sea floor. There were multiple Sea turtle nests up a down the beach including one in front of the Polings.
By dusk, an astonishing presentation in the surf out front of the house. As the tide receded, minnows became trapped in shallow pools. Birds gathered. Then the mullet came. Hunting in packs. Herding the minnows further into the shallows. The birds, presented with easy pickings crates and dove cried and dove in a great cacophony.
We caught mullet by throwing lures out and foul hooking them. Then I tossed the net out. We stopped at 11. We cooked 4 and froze the rest, cleaned and scaled.
Nest day I caught a beautiful snapper, but again it was really lunch because I foul-hooked him. The bounty never reappeared. I don't if it had something to do with the fishing boat that showed up in the evening of the 1st. But for days that followed there was a lot less sea life.
On the 4th, the beaches were crowded and festive.
As Ivy noted:
Beach report. within two miles of what cha dune
Trump flags: zero
Turtle's nest: five
Texts (people reading books): twenty three. I counted iPads and kindles but not phones.
Toddler tents: three
Tattoos: more than a quarter of the population, maybe closer to half, over the age of 18
Teetotalers: most of the population over 18 is drinking by 10:30
Trash picker uppers: two volunteers.
We cooked ribs on the 4th and hosted Tommy and Kathy Thomson for lunch.
Fireworks were frightening frankly.
Air conditioners serviced.
Second dune fence erected, this one on the dunes.
Caulk applied to various gaps.
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