I was there (Orange Beach) last October.  I did not see one single bit of evidence there had been an oil spill.  I did see lots of expensive workers in Tyvek riding up and down the beach in expensive tractor parades.  There is NO WAY that they could have removed every stain.  The oil spill was more of a media event than a catastrophe.  In the (then) words of a smart liberal, born on the beach, Jimmy Buffett, “Mother nature is wounded – not dead.”