like a red rubber ball

Here's the video for The Little Red Ball that the Meet Me at the Gulf of Mexico song was used in. The pictures were taken mostly in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach AL, with a couple thrown in from the Pensacola FL airport.

washing the eye of the land

I feel a special connection with the Gulf of Mexico, particularly that stretch of shore along Florida's panhandle. My grandparents had a house on the beach in Panama City, so my summers growing up were filled with white sand and blue-green waters, as well as all the adventures of my mischievous father and his brothers and clan.