Of course, while we were here we had to have some shrimp. The Piggly Wiggly in town where we would get our groceries had fresh-caught large shrimp for $8.99 a pound and they cooked them for you with as much spice (Zatarains) as you requested. Needless to say, we had shrimp the first night.
On Monday, we drove to Mexico Beach to a restaurant called Toucan's for Oysters Rockefeller (our favorite way to eat oysters) but
they weren’t as quite as good as we remembered.
We had a nice view of the beach from our table.
The sand is white and the water clearer in Mexico Beach, but it also gets more crowded.
On Tuesday, we decided to go for a bike ride...a long bike ride...to the end of Cape San Blas. The bike trail was perfect: paved, wide and smooth...and no hills.
The bay is on the east side of the cape. We found a nice place to put in a boat (like the Portabote we would like to get but don't have yet).
And the ocean is on the west side of the cape.
We had a strong head wind fighting against us on the bike ride back. We drove the car back out to the Cape to find out how far we rode (15 miles round trip) and on the way back drove out to the Cape San Blas Lighthouse that is now being restored.
It was a beautiful day for a bike ride but we were tired and hungry by the time we got back. We had watched a locally broadcast TV show about where to find the best oysters on the gulf. No. 2 on their list was a little restaurant right down the road from our campsite called Indian Pass Trading Post. Their oysters come from their own oyster beds in Appalachicola Bay.
So we decided go there for lunch.
It's kind of a dive.
But like a lot of dives, the food is some of the best. We had their baked oysters and they were delicious!
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