A relaxing day on the Gulf of Mexico

We slept in Gulfport, MS last night.  Today we back tracked to spend more time at some places we had seen yesterday, but were too tired to visit.  We went to Bay St. Louis.  They had a train depot museum that included a Mardi Gras section, a history of the town and train and a folk museum. 

 In the upstairs folk museum they had a lot of glass.  I had fun with the fish eye lens here.

 Outside, there are still railroad tracts in use.  Several trains passed by, blowing their horns very loudly.  But none stopped here.

Across the street is the cemetery for the catholic brethren associated with the college near by.  More Spanish moss on the trees.

 The trees are huge.  A fish eye is the best way to capture the whole tree.

A lot of butterflies were fluttering around one tiny section of the cemetery.

                                     

Then on to the old town of Bay St Louis.  The courthouse.

No sure what he saw.  But I saw this!

I had seen a lot of signs in the area welcoming the "cruisers".  Did not know what it meant until we had lunch in a small cafe called the Buttercup in Bay st. Louis.  As we were eating our chef salad which consisted of a few tomatoes, mixed greens, a ton of bacon and ham, a small amount of cheese and a hard boiled egg - not exactly a lot of vegetables as I was craving, a black gentleman sat down next to us and started a conversation.  There were a lot of old time autos in town for a big car rally the past weekend.  He suggested a historical church to visit, but we were running out of time.  I rains here every afternoon.  And with the tropical storm Michael, (how appropriate is that!) approaching we decided to head back to Gulfport.  We wanted to stop at a couple of places before getting to our hotel.

 We had passed a port that house a lot of working fishing boats.  We could see the rain coming in so were reluctant to go out onto the docks. 

It did rain briefly - we waited in our car.  Then headed out to the wharf's.

 I was some workers on a boat.  And tried to engage them in conversation and asked about taking photos.  Out of all the guys - only this one got involved.  He explained how they worked their boat. Getting all the licenses was expensive.  So they sold the shrimp off the docks by putting up a flag with a shrimp on it so locals would now they had some. 

 We came across another boat where people where working  This guy's ancestors were from Vietnam just outside of Saigon.  He has lived in the US all of his life.  He just married a women in Vietnam at age 47.  He is trying to get her to the US. 

 We are in a hotel and can't cook - so no sale to us.

 Finally some pelicans pictures.

In the parking lot - we are the only car, but there are a couple of trucks - this one with this car on the trailer.  I just noticed it because it is from 1949, my birth year.  Hope he is able to sell it.