Can't Beat This Trip

My, my, my. Sometimes places you imagine will be good are even better. So it was with the first tour many of us made with McCoy Pascagoula River tours yesterday afternoon. Captain Bennie McCoy, who has lived his life along this magnificent river, expertly took us from marsh to bayou to swamp and back again.

Even when the distance isn't great from shoreline, one gets the feeling that they are a thousand miles away in another world. The abundance of birds of all types, including a fly-over by a swallow-tailed kite, was amazing. Equally amazing was the 11 foot plus alligator that tolerated a fairly near pass to check him out. His head was absolutely huge!

Way too often, we get caught up in our own little world, thinking that's all there is worthy of our attention.

It takes a trip out in the wild to remind us that we are, indeed, missing out on something really special each day when we don't stop to appreciate this incredible Earth we have been blessed with.