Visiting Coastal Mississippi…

We really enjoyed our short stay near Mobile Alabama but were also looking forward to our next stay on the coast of Mississippi. However we weren't even sure we would be ablet to stay at the Davis Bayou Campground because it had closed in September to repave all the loops in the park.

We were finally notified that the park would open October 1st so we were good to go. Our drive to the park was uneventful and as we pulled in we noticed the park was full even on the first day it reopened. We found out later it was because we were in Ocean Spring MS during the Crusin’ the Coast event.

This annual festival celebrates antique, classic and hot rod vehicles, nostalgic music and related events. It is the largest event in Mississippi and will have upwards to 9,000 vintage cars registered and on-site for the event. It was fun because everywhere we went we would see all kinds of older cars dating back to the 30’s.

While it was cool to see all these cars it wasn’t cool dealing with that much traffic clogging the coastal Mississippi roadways. Nonetheless we managed to find some fun. Davis Bayou Campground is located east of downtown Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and is a part of Gulf Islands National Seashore so as such we enjoyed several short hikes while visiting.

Our morning walk would take us to a salt marsh and a fresh water marsh where we would occasionally see an American Alligator. We were a little bummed when we discovered most of the hikes were closed as the boardwalks were partially destroyed due to previous storms. Why they are putting no effort into rebuilding them is anyone’s guess.

We also went over to one of the local casinos to play a little video poker. We aren’t big gamblers as we play mostly for fun on the nickel slots. While playing our nickel poker we were served free Heinekens so even though we lost a few bucks we felt we  won after having some free beers!

While in Ocean Springs we also found a used bike to replace Sharon’s old beater bike that we had been using bailing wire and duct tape to keep it rolling. The last straw was when somewhere on the backroads of Alabama we somehow lost the front wheel off the bike. We don’t know if it fell off or was stolen but if it fell off we certainly hope no one was injured by it! Yikes!!!

Lastly we also celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary in Mississippi. We knew just the place to celebrate, Bozos! Bozo makes one of the best po’ boys we have ever had and we simply had to return. Sharon and I shared one of the stuffed shrimp po’ boys and a fried oyster basket. Man were we stuffed after that feast! and we toasted to the hope for many more years of wedded bliss…