Orange Beach, Alabama. Wow. This is an amazing strip of sandy beach with beautiful warm swimming on Alabama's gulf coast. Long walks on the beach, great seafood, warm weather. We stayed at a hotel on the beach where there was a convention of Alabama prison administrators. Serious dudes and dudettes. Nice, but serious. By the way, I was communing with that seabird, and I was setting up a very nice photo, when Emily photobombed my picture. See the results below (last picture)