I just spent a week on Dauphine Island off the coast of Alabama in the Gulf.  I was very curious to know what differences there might be between the Atlantic and the Gulf beaches.  I have to say I was very disappointed with the beach on Dauphine Island.  It is very narrow; there is a seawall farther out which keeps out the normal waves, so that is not as interesting.  There are a number of gas rigs out in the Gulf which means the view is not so great.  And there were practically no shells at all, much less in a variety of shapes and colors.  What shells there were were white.  It was very commercialized with people zipping around in motorboats and those seadoo thingys.  Lots of condos and people, not much nature.  It’s not for me.

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