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The gulls follow the ferry for a free handout. |
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Friendly Laughing Gull |
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Ferry docked at West Ship pier. |
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Fort Massachusetts from the pier. |
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Sound beach east of the pier. |
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Fort Massachusetts from the boardwalk. |
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Approaching the gulf beach on the boardwalk. |
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One umbrella and two chairs $20 a day. |
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Umbrellas extend east and west from the end of the boardwalk. |
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Lifeguards are on duty only in the umbrella area. |
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Looking east along the gulf beach. |
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No camping allowed, thus there's a good deal of wood debris even tho there are no trees. |
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Fort Massachusetts from across the island. |
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The interior has many low areas that fill with rain or storm tides. |
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There are low sand dunes along the gulf and sound beaches. |
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School of bait fish, probably menhaden. |
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A lone skimmer looking for a meal. |
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Gulf side beach about a mile east of swim area. |
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Red winged black birds feasting on sea oats. |
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Most of the dunes are covered with sea oats. |
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Strange plant... looks like yellow string. |
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The interior is generally grassy with low vegetation. |
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Approaching the east end of the island. Dunes on Sound side. |
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The gulf beach is rather narrow near the east end. |
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The dunes begin to disappear near the east end. |
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The vegetation becomes sparse near the east end. |
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Gulf side view from near the east end. |
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The last group of dunes approaching the east end. |
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Essentially a big flat sand spit makes up the east end. A result of the Camille Cut. |
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Before Camille, this area was near the center of Ship Island. |
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Looking west from where the previous phot was taken. |
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Entrance to Fort Massachusetts. |
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When built, the fort was in the center of the west end of the island. |
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View from the entrance. |
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Interior showing holes for cannon. |
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Cannon ball furnace... the balls were fired whiile red hot. |
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Interior. |
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Access stairway to the top. |
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Inside vieew from top. |
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Top view showing cannon placements. |
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View of Sound from top. |
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All of the cannon (but one) have been removed. |
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This is the one remaining cannon..... a big 15 incher. |
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The fifteen inch canon. |
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Fifteen inch bore. |
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The compound as planned in 1866. |
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Welcome to West Ship Island. |
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