Perdido Pass

Talk about hard work. . . James Callaway was an Orange Beach, AL resident living on the Ole River near the Florida line. He wanted access to the Gulf of Mexico, so with the help of family and friends, using nothing but buckets and shovels, he dug a channel at Perdido Pass. Since there were no rock reinforcements on the banks, the canal would continuously fill back with sand and have to be dug again! The first bridge joining the Alabama and Florida coastal peninsulars was not built until 1946. The picture in this post of the beautiful, curving bridge over Perdido Pass is the current bridge that was built in 1989 and offers spectacular views of the crystal blue Gulf waters and snow white beaches on both sides.