TheThis marina is located within a few miles of the Gulf of Mexico.  Across the street there  are several restaurants within walking distance.  We visited our firs onet, Tacky Jacks, on Sunday the 19th.  They had reasonable prices and a deck you could have dinner on.  Here is Gary and a view from the deck

Gary at Tacky Jacks

View from deck

They have their own dock but apparently our boat would never make it in :(.

Here are some pictures of the marina we are at

Fish cleaning station

Benches outside of ships store

Ships Store

The ships store is in the bottom and there is a boat broker on the second floor

View down to Ships Store

This is a view from the parking lot down to the ships store.  The white pillar on the left belongs to a building that houses an electronics company.  Further down the sidewalk on the left, those umbrellas belong to the restaurant that is on the right.  It is called Fisher’s at Orange Beach marina.  They must be pretty popular as they are busy every night.

Sitting area at the restaurant

This is a sitting area, pretty nice huh?  The bushes and tress are covered with blankets because they are talking a freeze tonight.  Snow even.  They don’t know what to do with that down here.  They have closed all the schools for 2 days.

The marina even has a full service yacht works

Saunders

Saunders Yard

This is the enterence to the marina

Enterance to marina

The owner of this marina owns the home that is off to my right in this picture.  This dock curves around and ends on his sand beach.  There are two benches that you can sit on and watch boats go by and dolphins swim by

Dolphin, bottom left. See it’s back 🙂

They have laundry facilities but they are outside.

Washer and Dryer

This is the first time I had to do our laundry outside.  The first time I was doing laundry, one of the guys from the boats here looked at me as I took this picture and was wondering what I was doing.  I told him I had never done my laundry outside before.  I think he thought I was strange.  Good assessment on his part 🙂

You all stay warm, only 3 more months of winter left and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM!