Round Island is a small, uninhabited island located in the Mississippi Sound just a few miles off shore from Pascagoula. It has beautiful, long sand beaches and sparse forests of slash pine, and some interior marshes. The island provides feeding, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the brown and white pelicans and cormorants. A number of rare or endangered species, including the American alligator are found there. Hurricane Katrina did lots of damage that included destruction of the lighthouse and cutting channels partly pr completely through it. Round Island provides a great opportunity to explore an offshore island in much less distance than one of the Gulf National Seashore Barrier Islands.