Today we visited Fort Morgan, at the tip of the island and established to protect Mobile Bay,. Built after the war of 1812, It was proven to be out of date during the Civil war when Admiral Farragut stormed into the bay and even after one of his first ships hit a mine (at that time called a torpedo) and he shouted his famous words -"DAMN THE TORPEDOS - FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
As with everything else we've seen here, Alabama has done a wonderful job in providing access to everyone with extremely well done presentations.
Ended up at TACKY JACK"S for lunch and our first helping of Royal Red Shrimp - delicious..
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| The lighthouse lens at the Fort Morgan museum |
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| One of the many displays |
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| The gang ready to blast off |
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| The fort is immense |
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| The entrance to the main part of the fort |
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| ONe of the display rooms - the loading room |
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| LUNCH Royal red shrimp and Super Nacho's |
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| Take a bigger bite Bob |
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| All the houses are set up on pilings for obvious reasons |
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| Yes that's Terry at the pool with her hat on - we were extremely careful not to get burned (Bob was taking a nap) |
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