Pirates Cove Bushwacker

When I was growing up, we were fortunate that my family had a beach house on Ono Island, a small spit of land at the mouth of Perdido Bay on the northern Gulf of Mexico. Both my parents grew up in Mobile, Alabama. My mom had spent her childhood weekends at her grandparents’ house on Dog River, about an hour away from our beach house. My mom’s family shared a lot of stories growing up, but their best memories were centered around their days on Dog River. Fishing all day, setting crab traps f