re: Visiting the USS Alabama

I went one summer in the late 80s with a childhood friend and his grandfather when I was 12. Great childhood memories from that trip. My friend's grandparents lived in Fairhope just behind the small church on the main road south of the Fairhope Pier (heading towards Point Clear). We rode our BMX bikes all over downtown Fairhope, caught bait in the Bay (shrimp, pinfish, croackers, crabs, etc) at night with a sane net, and went down to Fort Morgan where his dad fished for sharks on the Bay side while we caught blue crab in a lagoon behind the Fort. I miss those days and this thread about visiting the Battle Ship just gave me a flashback.