(photo courtesy of Jessie Zenor)
This is something I meant to write about a few weeks back. Some friends and I went exploring the coastal waterways of Southern Mississippi. This is one of the best ways to get a feel, an understanding, of this region. In most places one seeks higher ground to perch atop and overlook, taking in all that surrounds. Down here there really isn't any high ground so you have to get as low as possible and the best way to do that is by water; everything is attached to the water. We put Jeff's boat in at a marina in the Mississippi Sound and rode east, out to the point of Biloxi where we turned north and then back west into Back Bay Biloxi. The Back Bay for the most part is shallow but a few parts are dredged to make way for the shrimp boats and coal barges. After about 30 minutes of riding west, into the warm sun that knocked off the chill of the water, we turned back north into the Tchoutacabouffa River, a course of water that winds its way trough dense forest of palmetto, wax myrtle, magnolia and pine. In the bends of the river are beautiful little sand beaches; perfect for camping, that is the plan for later in the spring anyway.
