Mexico Beach, FL

and surrounding beach communities

The sun is shining and the weather is great. We got up this morning and decided to check out some of the local beaches an of course head over to Apalachicola for some local oysters. We had read that one of the top 10 oyster bars was about 30 miles from us we had to check it out... We also noticed that out of 10 we had been to 2 of them. Boss Oyster is a funky joint the restaurant sits right on the Apalachicola River and we sat outside on the deck. The oysters were quite big, very tasty, but, I prefer the smaller oysters, of course this did not stop us from each having a dozen. We then headed over to Cape Sand Blas, because that is where the #1 best beach in the US is, well its beautiful, but, so are all the beaches we have seen on the gulf including Alabama. We actually preferred the beach in Mexico Beach FL the sand was snow white much softer no rocks. The sunset picture was taken at Mexico Beach. The Lighthouse picture is from St George Island. We stumbled across the worlds smallest police station- in was in Carabelle, Fl that is the picture of the phone booth it was the police station until 1960. Now that is a roadside oddity.

We had a busy day and it was a lot of fun checking out a lot of funky little beach bars and restaurants. On our way home we stopped at shrimp stand and bought some fresh shrimp for dinner.

Tomorrow we will be moving on... Orlando is our next stop .....