Little Lagoon beckons: a long, thin, mostly shallow expanse of water sparkling in the sun just west of Gulf Shores, walled off from Mobile Bay to the north by the bulk of the Fort Morgan peninsula and ...

As I’m preparing to slide my kayak into the water, I’m hailed by the folks fishing from a pontoon boat. They want to know which way I’m going, because there’s a gator they might need to warn me about.

All nature is good, but some nature is just a little more fun. That’s the case in coastal Alabama, where landscapes collide and sandy beaches meet freshwater lakes meet pine-oak woods meet the mighty ...