Caching Today in Diamondhead, MS 3/26/2008

After I called CVS and ordered my prescriptions and made our campground reservations for the next 10 days we left to go caching and pick up my scripts. We drove to Pass Christian which is about 5 miles from here and did a cache in a church playground. Then we drove around looking at the damage this small town received from Katrina. Most of the damage was down by the bay and it was quite extensive. There was a Christian Conference Center right on the water that was completely gutted and still hasn't been touched as far as repair is concerned. Then we had to drive to Gulfport to CVS to get my scripts and then headed back to Diamondhead, MS to start caching there. Our first cache was at a fitness center, then on to a mutli-cache located at the local Xray labs, then a cache at DQ in a tree, on to a very unusual old cemetery. What made it unusual was that all the grave sites were enclosed in fences in family groups. There must have been 40-50 separate family burial plots there and all of them were enclosed in fences. Our last cache was located along an old abandoned road next to the Diamondhead Golf Course. Then it was back to the RV and we had lunch and Mom did the logs while I showered. We took it easy for the rest of the afternoon and we just got done with dinner. I am doing the blog and Mom is watching tv. The campgrounds has emptied out quite a bit from what it was over the weekend. The casino $2.49 buffet was mobbed today as we guess all the seniors in Bay St. Louis were there. Well time to say until tomorrow and we love you all.


Picture List:1,2-Greenvale, W. J. Quarles Homeplace. The William James Quarles family arrived at at this site in January 1884 by train from Wilson County, TN where Mr. Quarles was a young school teacher and farmer. He taught the first school in Long Beach in his home; opened the first General Store; was appointed the first postmaster. Post Office was housed in his store. Land developer. Laid out and dedicated Pineville Rd; gave land for Klondyke Rd; gave land/materials for first Quarles School. With James Thomas began truck farming industry responsible for rapid growth and for Long Beach being named "Radish Capital of America". Active in church and civic affairs. Called the "catalyst for development of Long Beach". 3-This boat ended up 2 blocks from the beach and still hasn't been claimed, 4-Shaggy's Bar & Restaurant, 5-Shrimp boats, 6-Small plot in the cemetery we found our cache in, note the 2 small markers at the head of the grave we supposed that there might have been maybe a mother and daughter buried there as one marker was smaller than the other, 7-Stone house that survived Katrina although it was gutted, 8,9-There once was a shopping center located on this site in the 2 pictures, 11,12- Damage in Pass Christian, MS, 13- Christian Conference Center on the ocean in Pass Christian.