Kiva Dunes Beach Resort Live Cam

Echoes of cannon and gulls along Mobile Point

Standing on the narrow ridge of sand that forms the Fort Morgan peninsula, the visitor senses an almost theatrical tension between constructed defense and wild coast: a masonry star fort stitched into dunes and sea oats, a lighthouse’s white cone, the vast Gulf of Mexico to the south and the quieter, tea-colored waters of Mobile Bay to the north. The peninsula is a textbook demonstration of barrier-beach geomorphology meeting human engineering — a spit shaped by longshore drift, storm overwash, tidal currents and deliberate human intervention over two centuries. The landform functions as both sentinel and sieve, protecting the estuary behind it while constantly trading sand with the Gulf in response to waves and storms.