Maria Ann Callaghan, Roberts Brothers Inc. Realtor

09/01/2026

If you live in Magnolia Springs, don’t forget to renew your golf cart permits! See below. Credit by Town of Magnolia Springs.

09/01/2026

Come see me and other experts behind a real estate transaction this weekend at the Mobile Fairgrounds! Ask your questions and pick up your resource folder too! Thinking about commercial leasing in downtown OWA? I will have packets available for that too. Come see Brandon Reed, (Local Bank), Knockout Home Inspections, Roberts Brothers’ Realtors, and others. Greater Gulf Coast Home & Lifestyle Show

09/01/2026

Somewhere on the Eastern Shore, in the hour before sunrise, the bay occasionally comes up onto the beach and lies down at your feet. 🌅

They call it a jubilee.

Flounder go flat in inches of water. Blue crabs climb the pilings and sit there blowing bubbles. Shrimp, eels, stingrays, croaker, all of it packed into a band of shallows you can walk out into with a washtub.

The reason is not magic, and it is not the fish being friendly. It is suffocation.

Mobile Bay stratifies. Dense salt water from the Gulf slides underneath the fresher river water on top, and that bottom layer gets sealed off from the air. Decomposition down there strips the oxygen out of it. When an easterly wind and a rising tide push that oxygen-poor wedge up the eastern shelf, everything living on the bottom gets driven ahead of it into the last thin strip of breathable water, which is the beach.

Harold Loesch published the conditions in 1960 and they still hold. Summer. Before dawn. An easterly wind the day before and during. A rising tide, because a falling one ends it. A saltier water mass moving in. Add an overcast day before and a glassy calm surface. When the sun comes up and photosynthesis restarts, it is over. 🦀

June through September, peaking in August. Loesch counted 37 of them between 1946 and 1956, with an average date of August 21.

The core zone is the upper eastern shore, Daphne down through Fairhope, Battles Wharf and Point Clear. Fairhope describes events running the full 15 miles from Daphne to Mullet Point, or sometimes just a few hundred yards of one beach.

You will hear that this happens in only two places on earth, here and Tokyo Bay. Fairhope's own website is careful about it, saying residents believe that. No research supports a hard two-site limit, and there are documented events elsewhere, including once near Pensacola. What is defensible is that Mobile Bay is the only place where this is documented as a regular, predictable thing.

Word used to travel by dinner bells rung in the dark and somebody hollering "Jubilee." Then phone trees. Now it is text messages.

One more thing, from Marine Resources director Scott Bannon. Creel limits still apply. Five flounder per person at 14 inches, a five gallon bucket of shrimp, a five gallon bucket of crabs at five inches. A jubilee is not a free-for-all.

08/26/2026

Calling All Mahjong Lovers & Entrepreneurs! 🀄

Do you LOVE Mahjong?
Have you ever thought about opening a Mahjong Players Club near the beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast?

Imagine creating a fun, welcoming place where locals, snowbirds, and tourists can gather, play, learn, socialize, and enjoy the game they love.

Do I have the location opportunity for YOU!

Downtown OWA in Foley has some amazing leasing opportunities and attractive lease rates that you do NOT want to miss!

This could be a fantastic opportunity for someone with the vision and capital to create a unique Mahjong destination near Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.

Interested in learning more about available spaces and leasing opportunities?

📲 Contact me today!
Maria Ann Callaghan, REALTOR®
📞 251-753-2416

🀄 Maybe it’s time to put your next business move on the table! 😉

08/26/2026

It’s that time of year again! Nationwide Home and Lifestyle Expo! Stay tune for more info!

08/25/2026

We lost a pure heart of gold today! Share your memories of Dolly, Dolly’s music, or one of her charitable gifts below.

08/14/2026

Congratulations to my sellers!
It has been a busy month for these two. Next week, we will congratulate them again on their home purchase!

08/05/2026

Thank You for your kind words. Such a beautiful family that I was so happy to assist in their relocation journey.
This is why I love what I do.

08/04/2026

OK. Do you remember what this photo means?
Hint: Save the Date!

08/04/2026