The Forgotten Coast

So it turns out Carrabelle is part of the "Forgotten Coast" of Florida.  It is quiet now but we are pretty sure talking to people that it is getting ready to get busy as does most of the panhandle, whereas in Cedar Key the season is the winter, up in the panhandle it is the summer.  We talked to our neighbor at Carrabelle Beach RV Resort, Bill is a native of the area and had quite a bit of local knowledge.  

Our site

Turns out the area was used for the training of amphibious soldiers for the D-Day invasion in WWII.  Bill also, after being amused by our report of the "hospitality" at the Hole in the Wall Seafood recommended we drive to the Indian Pass Raw Bar instead.  It was quite a drive, about 35 miles, but it was definitely worth it.  It is a very laid back and unusual place.

The Indian Pass Raw Bar 

When you go in you just seat yourself anywhere you can find a couple seats, you go over to the massive cooler and pick out what you want to drink, water, soda, juice, beer, wine, or just go over to the beer taps and pull your own draft beer.  Then you mark on the drink chit what you drank.  You are given another paper which is the menu which you mark with whatever you want and how many.  We picked 1 dozen raw oysters, 1 dozen baked oysters with garlic, butter and cheese, and a pound of big peel 'n eat shrimp, you then hand the menu to whichever waitress happens to be walking by, and poof, your food arrives, and everyone is really friendly to boot!  Then when you are ready to leave you walk over to the cash register, hand them your drink chit, tell them which table you were sitting at, and pay your bill, cool.

Indoors

Our raw dozen, yeah we ate some before we took the picture, AGAIN!

The awesome baked oysters

And the delicious shrimp!

We had a nice drive there, and a delicious lunch, and will definitely go back when our travels take us back to the Forgotten Coast.

We walked about 2 1/2 miles on the beach each morning, it was wonderful, easy walking, and not many people.

A little fog lingering in the early am

Pulling in a catfish

One of many unusual starfish along the beach

On alert for breakfast

And yours truly, Jan and I