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Around Town Mobile Carnival Museum. Sure, you know that Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America, but there’s so much more to learn, and class is in session at the Mobile Carnival Museum.
A Jubilee event at Weeks Bay National Estuary Research Reserve [1] showing the macroorganic density typical of the event. Pictured here are crabs, flounder, stingray, and an eel. Jubilee is the name used locally for a natural phenomenon that occurs sporadically on the shores of Mobile Bay, a large body of water on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
Mobile Bay (/ m oʊ ˈ b iː l / moh-BEEL) is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island , a barrier island on the western side.
The 120,000 square foot museum, located on the riverfront in downtown Mobile, Alabama, is designed to look as if it were a ship headed into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The museum features 90 interactive exhibits, simulators, theaters and artifact displays, complemented by artifacts and memorabilia displayed throughout "multiple decks ...
Mobile Carnival poster from 1900. Floats lining up for an Order of Inca parade in 2007. Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama.It is the oldest official Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman Nicholas Langlois in 1703 when Mobile was the capital of Louisiana.
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A large waterspout was spotted in Mobile Bay, Alabama, on Thursday, June 26. Viewers could see the funnel cloud from the Dauphin Island Parkway around 4.30 p.m. Waterspouts, while often mistakenly ...
Meaher State Park is a public recreation area located on Big Island, [1] an island at the north end of Mobile Bay that lies within the city limits of Spanish Fort, Alabama. The state park occupies 1,327 acres (537 ha) along the shoreline of Ducker Bay, [2] at the junction of Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. [3]