It’s Friday night and I’m going out to meet some guys in Slidell, where I’m going is sort of Slidell’s answer to the French quarter in New Orleans, except there’s only about four bars, so am not sure about that. Meeting them in a bar called the Tavern (a normal name), that’s if I can find it of course, never been there before.
Took my camera but forgot to take any pictures except for this one, it’s a view on the inside of the bar, will take more photos the next time, that is if I go again.Feeling a bit rough Saturday so didn’t really go anywhere, did my washing and cleaned up the apartment instead, how sad is that.
It’s Sunday now and I’ve decided to see what the beaches are like in Gulfport, it's about 20 miles away from Diamonhead, the other direction to Slidell.
Gulf port, Diamondhead and Stennis are in Mississippi, Slidell is in Louisiana, bit of a geography
lesson there.
lesson there. Hears some shots of the beaches in Gulfport, was told they were not very good but the sand looks nice and white to me.
Went for a bit of a walk along the beach, not very many people around thought and not really built up, there was quite a few people out on Jet skies though.
Don't ask me what the blue oil drums on the beach are for but they were all over, maybe for rubbish or clearing up after the hurricane. It says 4 stroke on them if you look closer though no idea what that means.
The photo on the left shows there's still plenty of work to be done to get everything fixed up after Katerina. Just had the two year anniversary of the storm the other day, can't believe it's two years ago already.
Decided to get back in the car and drive along the front a bit further, the road goes on right around the coast. After about 7 or 8 miles came to a place called Biloxi, look what was round the corner.
So i parked up and went into the Hard Rock Casino Biloxi, very nice it was too.
The Casino is right on the quay side, and you'll see from a photo later, really susceptible to storms
This is right at the back of the casino, it's almost built on the water.
As you go inside the first thing you see is sort of a collection of rock memorabilia. The one underneath is going through to the gaming floor, don't know who the bloke is he just walked round the corner as i was taking the shot.
The photo underneath to the left is of a guitar that was on the wall of the original casino before the hurricane struck, and was fished out of the Gulf of Mexico later. Apparently the original Casino was band new and had not opened, a couple of nights before opening day the hurricane struck and pretty much destroyed it. The casinos were almost the first thing to be built back after the storm, i wonder why, they say money talks.
Took this one on my way home after a couple of drinks and checking out the gambling.
2 comments:
You need to buy a "Hurricane" when you go to a Hard Rock as you get to keep the glass. But then again, they may have stopped serving them there.
No they still have them, take more than a real hurricane to stop that. Did think of getting a souvenir though, have a sneaking feeling I'll be back again so maybe then.
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