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Sweet Home Alabama - The Little Zoo that could!

The Gulf Shores Zoo was swamped by storm surge and floodwaters by both 2004's Hurricane Ivan and 2005's Hurricane Katrina. All 270 of its animals had to be evacuated — to zoo director Patti Hall's Elberta home.

Lama

Baby Tigers

Crested Crane

Why Lemurs don't drive

Little known fact: Wallabys are deathly afraid of bunnies

Sweet Home Alabama - Blue Angels

A 40 minute drive to Pensacola to see the Blue Angels practice. These guys are amazing or crazy!

"Fat Albert"

On upside down

Two up Two down

VIDEO OF FLIGHT

Sweet Home Alabama - Bellingrath Gardens

Day trip to Bellingrath Gardens on the other side of Mobile Bay. Take the Dauphine Island Ferry.

Dauphine Island Ferry

Offshore Oil Derrick

Fort at Dauphine Island

Dauphine Island Bridge

Sweet Home Alabama - MARDI GRAS

January 29th and we make it to Gulf Shores, AL. We stop at the State Park but there are no sites available. Find a monthly spot at Island Retreat RV Park on Fort Morgan Rd. Lots of snowbirds, the majority are from Michigan.

The weather continues to be colder than we had hoped. This is one of the coldest winters on record. Highs are in the 50's but gets down to the 20's at night. Average temps should be in the 60's.

Enjoy a Mardi Gras Parade up in the town of Fairhope.

Florida - Breakdown

Enter Florida, stay at Stephen C. Foster State Park. Then continue to Tavares, Florida fora visit with Gary's Brother. Enroute to Gulf Shores, AL. we layed over in a small State Park - Ochlocknee State Park in Sopchoppy Florida. Home to white squirrels. Had a pleasant evening, called ahead to Gulf State Park to see if they had monthly sites available which they did. Stopped at the dump station on the way out in the morning and it would not go any further!Towed to Tallahassee for repair. Was fairly painless and quick, but just enough of a delay to lose out on a monthly spot at Gulf State Park in Alabama.