Pelicans and Cormorants and Dauphin Island Bridge Poster

"Pelicans and Cormorants and Dauphin Island Bridge, Alabama" by Catherine Sherman. Brown pelicans and double crested cormorants gather on a rock jetty near the Gordon Persons Bridge that leads from mainland Mobile, County, Alabama, to Dauphin Island. The bridge carries a three-mile (4.8 km) two-lane section of Alabama State Route 193 across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to the island. The natural channel followed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at this location is Pass Aux Herons. The bridge separates the Mississippi Sound on the west from Mobile Bay on the east. It was named in honour of Seth Gordon Persons, the 46th governor of Alabama. The original bridge opened on July 2, 1955. It was destroyed by Hurricane Frederic in 1979 and was replaced by a fixed precast concrete segmental bridge in 1982. The central main span was the first use of a 400-foot (122 m) span on a precast concrete segmental bridge.