BAD TRAVELS

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Spent 4 days exploring Ocean Springs and Biloxi, Mississippi. Weather was hot and sunny and it’s only March. Can’t imagine what it’s like here in the summer when the heat and humidity is constant. Check out the BLOG!

This is in Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Sites are first come first serve, $16/night but only includes water and electricity. None are on the beach but there’s marshes all around. Unfortunately that meant lots of annoying no seeums.

These little fiddler crabs were all over the banks of the march, waving their big claws in the air…..

…..and this explains why some guys think all they have to do to get laid is wave!

Yeah I know, back off lady!

Local osprey

Hard to believe that only 51 years ago, black people weren’t allowed on public beaches here.

Heading out to the pier

View back to the beaches of Biloxi, MS. It’s so flat here, easy to see how Katrina caused so much damage.

All along the Biloxi beaches, trees were damaged by Katrina and this multi dolphin sculpture is a great example of how they’ve made something beautiful of the stumps that were left.

The big Casinos (there’s 9 in Biloxi) all seemed to hold up to Katrina but just like across the road from the Hard Rock, there’s lots of parking lots in vacant land. What ever was there, is now long gone.

And there’s pleny of vacant/abandoned buildings like this one with big empty parking lots. Made it easy to find free places to park and then walk around.

Marina on the canal in Ocean Springs

Local gator of course!

Biking around Ocean Springs. The original bridge to Biloxi was destroyed in Katrina and this is how they rebuilt it.

Nice new mosaic tiles and seating areas to enjoy the view.

Ocean Spring beach…nice white sand but the water in the Gulf here is really unattractive. Dark brown and murky. But they have a great pedestrian/bike path all around it.

That’s the bridge from Ocean Springs to Biloxi in the background.

Saw lots of properties with bright pink azaleas in bloom like this one.

March here looks and feels like June back home in Ontario