Boom laying barge outside Perdido Pass between Perdido Key and Orange Beach, Alabama about 7:30am, Thursday, June 10.

After Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, a lot of effort was made to restore the beaches and dunes. They came back, they are beautiful. What protection is there from the oil? The booms are too late, oil has already made it through into the Pass. Normally early in the morning you would see Great herons, pelicans, and many other bird species. Now you see very few. Perhaps thats a good thing.

I checked the parking lots of restaurants, they were virtually deserted. Our beach communities survive on a May-September tourist economy, all the schools are out for summer, but very few people around.

One wonders whether it will EVAr be the same again.