Staying at Summerdale, AL at the Escapee’s Rainbow Plantation RV Park. This is a large park with lots of permanent residents that own their lots and have permanent homes on those lots. There are also about 100 or so shaded RV lots for folks that might want to rent for a day, week, or longer.
They have a big clubhouse (we’re going for lasagna dinner tomorrow night) and a great looking pool, but they say it’s not quite up to temperature just yet.
Our site is nice and well shaded by a large Water Oak tree and the neighbors we’ve met are great.
Today (Tuesday) we took a drive down to the beach, (we’ll go back tomorrow with chairs and towels) and then we drove on west to visit Fort Morgan.
Construction of the fort was started in 1819, took 15 years to complete, and is located on Mobile Point so as to be able to protect the shoreline from the north during the Civil War.
It’s interesting to note that the US government leased slaves from local slave owners to manufacture the over 30,000,000 (yes, thirty MILLION) bricks to build the fort. I’m not going to go in to all the details of the construction and design, but I found it really fascinating to read all the placards located along the self-guided tour.
If you’d like to learn more, follow this link to the official site.
Here’s a few pictures I took with my Samsung S7 Smartphone. I’m still amazed at the clarity and the resolution of these pix from a PHONE!
