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Southeast, Alabama
Fairhope AL
Mobile Bay bluff gully beach
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Sea glassAlso reported: driftwood.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1894 single-tax colony on the Eastern Shore bluffs, century-old household discard washes from bluff gullies onto the bay beach
Mobile Bay Magazine profiled beachcomber Ben Gibson, 200+ bottles including 100-year-old examples recovered from one gully over two years
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slick clay bluff slopes after rainJellyfish in summer
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.