Mr. Lake's New Orleans Forum

Hi! Went to Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach and Waveland today. I hope you like my pics. I think I'll look into renting a place near the beach soon. I want to go back and stay a few days. http://picasaweb.google.com/girlygirl2969/BSLCrabFest

Here is a link to some info about one of the pics I took:

http://www.bsllt.org/

What a big crowd they had there. Really nice. Will has a gulf coast girlfriend, so he's been beachin' it in that area some this summer.

Thanks, Mrs. F.!!! Reminds me of my yoot. We used to visit my uncle's weekend home in Clermont Harbor til BETSY decided to give it a ride on a wave. I loved the water, except I always feared hitting a patch of seaweed while walking. I liked swimming pools where I could see the bottom!

It didn't help when my brother would swim underwater and pinch my leg.

Reminds me of my youth too, Mrs. F! Thanks for the pics & captions! I love captions!

We always went to Gulfport for a week or so every summer. My mama was so sad to see all the beautiful houses gone.
I haven't gotten it up to go look myself.

Thanks for taking us to the fest in your post! The pics are great, the beaches and seawall look wonderful. Mississippi is moving right along. We have to get ourselves to Ocean Springs to visit the Walter Anderson Museum. I understand White Pillars restaurant in Biloxi will be reopening, too.

Even reminds ME of MY youth! My family had a house in Long Beach that was levelled by Camille. Camille taking that house is what resulted in my respect/fear of hurricanes. Fury, I didn't know you grew up over there! We used to walk way, way down the beach, to Pass Christian. We never got as far as Bay St. Louis, because the adults would always drive down the beach looking for us before we could get that far.

Memories for me also. My mother's sister and her children etc. all still live in Gulfport. They have lived there for years.

Looks like fun.

My good friend from h.s.- Dawn has a house in Long Beach. She had it repaired and her parents were living in it after the thing until their house was ready. Now they moved back into their house and her house is empty. She lives in San Diego now but is struggling like crazy. She has the same situation I had when I moved here- paying a mortgage on an empty house, paying rent here, yada yada. She may be forced to move back to Long Beach if she can't sell the house.

CopCop, I am obsessed with Walter Anderson - the entire Anderson clan really. When my husband was in politics, we had all our conventions on the coast, and at one of the first ones I went to after we married in 86, one of the wives' functions was a tour of Shearwater. I had never heard of any of it, and I just couldn't get enough. His "room" and house were still in tact at that time, but the room nor the inside of the house was part of the tour. I was so curious about it that I made my hubby take me back out there in the late evening and we sneaked back there and went inside. OMG! I am sooooooo glad I got to see it as it really was before they dismantled it and moved it to town.

Subsequently I've read everything I can find about all of them and how it all started. There is a great documentary filmed by Ms Pub Broadcasting that is shown every once in a great while, usually late at night, that I watch every time I see it on. I guess I just like crazy people - maybe cuz I'm a little crazy myself!

I remember that church. Our mother's best friend from Dominican College had a family place a few blocks from the beach and we went to mass there when Mama's friend's daughter, Towanda and I spent a weekend there. I've always loved BSL and have often thought of moving there when I retire.