Vacation Day five-Ship Island, MS

A return trip to ship island was an adventure for our family on Saturday, as two large boatload of folks are taken to a small barrier island National Park eleven miles of shore from Gulfport, Ms. with a prisoner built Civil War Fort that never fired a shot, and a lovely beach where each day of the swimming season a community of fun lovers gathers for a day of sun bathing and swimming. Some of the sand was black...really. The island is marshy and full of interesting birds and crabs and ocean habitat.