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AND

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Getting Closer

This will be a short post.  We spent an uneventful week in Port St Joe, mostly because the weather did not cooperate, and there's just not a lot to do in that area.  As I said the campground was a bit of a disappointment, muddy, sandy, very tight with a terrible entrance.  But the one site we got is right on the water, very private although very few people there this time of year.  

Even though we had been there before we never noticed the tide.  It is a bit unique in that on most days there is only one high and one low, and we never saw it low before, no wonder the boats we saw kept very carefully to the channel:-)  Two pictures of the same view.

 

It's not that the tide is very high, it's just very shallow out there.

We had our eye on oysters and seafood, so we found a highly rated place in Panama City where we could also run a couple errands, a mere 36 miles away.  We went to Hunt's Seafood, a very small place that touts its oysters and fish.  Luckily we got there just as it opened because in just a few minutes it was waiting room only.  We, of course each ordered a dozen oysters and when they came we were stunned, on each of our plates were at least 4 of the biggest, most enormous oysters we've ever seen!  And, no, neither of us prefers them large.  Well, I hate to say it but we ate them anyway, and although they tasted good, it almost put us off oysters for the future, and no we never did get anymore raw oysters:-(  Let me just say they were fine, but not our preference, but we must be in the minority as we watched perhaps 30 dozen go by just while we were there.

Hard to tell in this picture just how big some of these were

Thankfully the shrimp and fried oysters were very good

Since the weather didn't cooperate we went to another good place in port St Joe, Shipwreck Raw Bar, and had a delicious lunch of fried oysters, shrimp, and gumbo.

Together we decided something other than fried seafood was warranted and amazingly there was a Mexican restaurant in Port St Joe, Quatro Locos, with stellar reviews.  Now we have eaten Mexican food all over this country, especially in the SW, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, etc that was very, very good, so we'd didn't have a lot of hope for this place, well, WOW!  It was amazing, fresh, vibrant, served with a flair, and run by really nice folks.  It was so good we went twice!

Superb shrimp and fish ceviche

Fish tacos

Shrimp tacos

Beef, pork, and steak tacos

And a Chili Relleno, seafood burrito

And if the weather hadn't been bad enough, our last two days it poured, well over an inch of rain with gale warnings, we recorded gusts as high as 38mph!  So we hunkered in, watched several movies, made a couple different soups, and for lunch our last day I ran out for freshly steamed shrimp at a little market 2 minutes from the campground, yummy!