I have been lurking on this board for a while now. After Dennis, my family wondered if we would be able to visit SoWal for the fourth year in a row. Although our vacation plans were minor compared to the damage to people's homes, we were so glad to find this site! It provided a lot of great info and convinced us not to cancel our plans. We stayed at Gulf Place in Santa Rosa the week of 7/23. I wanted to share a couple of my pics I took during my week there.
The first week of the trip we walked down to Ed Walline park for beach access and scampered up and down this hill of sand:
On Wednesday, one of the beach walkovers for Gulf Place was repaired:
There were plenty of other "creative" ways to access the beach:
The sunrise was beautiful on Tuesday:
Some houses were still borded up:
Some had sand hills in front of them:
Some were falling over the edge:
The outside 2-story porch wall on the house on the far right fell off about mid-week. I think it was from the large trucks full of sand rumbling by:
The water was clear and green by Wednesday:
Such clear water that we snorkled for all these shells:
Can't wait for next year!!!
