Waiting...

Hey everyone, I know it's been a long time since I have written on this blog, but that's because we've been very busy at Camp Dixie and things have been going really well. We've been completely booked this whole retreat season, and are looking forward to Summer Camp (and all that entails.) However, the biggest news that is going on around here right now is the oil spill created by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

We don't really know what to expect, I drove from Slidell, LA back to camp yesterday and Mississippi was really smelly. It smelled of Oil and paint thinner...

Right now it feels a little bit like we are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Oil is still leaking from the ocean floor, the weather has been really windy and wavy so it's moving the oil this direction (mostly), and the spill is getting nothing but larger. The Federal Government has also put a stop to all fishing from Louisiana to the panhandle of Florida, so it's coming. Additionally

I just read an article on www.al.com about BP offering $5000 to fisherman in Bayou La Batre, AL in return for not suing them for any losses because of the oil. It seems as though BP knows it is coming too.

I am going to be updating this blog so you can get an idea of what is going on at camp, and will post pictures when I can showing what is going on. The first picture is actually not taken from camp, I drove over to Perdido Pass and took some pictures. Perdido Pass is the closest entrance to the Gulf of Mexico if you were to drive a boat from Camp Dixie. They have put a boom on the inside of the Pass to stop incoming oil in an environment that is less wavy than outside the pass. It currently doesn't go all the way across the opening, so that boats can pass through as necessary, but I would imagine once the oil arrives, it will be kept closed (and boats won't need to go out the pass once it's filled with oil either.)

So, more update tomorrow. Currently the prediction is that we will be oil free until Wednesday or Thursday. We just pray that the winds will blow offshore, and the oil will be stopped at its source.

See you at camp,
Mac