BILOXI, Miss. – Shrimp boats at dock and golden sunsets across the Mississippi Sound are Biloxi hallmarks.

Biloxi shrimp boats. Image by Tom Adkinson. Image by Tom Adkinson.

Getting out on the water is easy in Biloxi, where there is a variety of fishing charters, as well as excursions to Ship Island, location of Fort Massachusetts, a National Park Service site. There even is a way to see how the shrimp boats work on the Biloxi Shrimping Trip, a 70-minute outing where the nets are likely to pull up shrimp, blue crabs, flounder, rays and other species. The dock is near the Beau Rivage and Hard Rock casinos, and the fee is far less then you could spend in 70 minutes at a blackjack table.

Trip-planning resource: GulfCoast.org