St. George Island Redux

Apalachicola has been a traditional stopping place for several years now.  It was my first big getaway after LaVerne died.  I stayed at the Sportsman Inn on the bay and brought the Vespa on a trailer.  The peace, quiet and oysters have brought me back ever since and I always stop by the Sportsman to reminisce. 

Last year we stayed at a commercial rv park near Carabelle and never even made it into Apalach.  This time we stayed at the state park on the island and thoroughly enjoyed the wood, birds and sound of the ocean.  It is such a relaxing place and the weather was warm, unlike last year.  We had fires everyday, plenty of great oysters and lots of rest. 

We went to The Grill for lunch one day where I had the seafood gumbo and Lynn had fried shrimp.  She swore they were the best she'd ever had and I believed her after trying one.  The gumbo remains one of my all time favorites. Tupelo honey can be found everywhere so we had to bring some home.

This poster was too good to pass up.  Wish I had room to hang one on my wall.  It reminds me of a beer incident last Saturday night when L and I went to the Sarasota Brewery to watch a Carolina basketball game and enjoy some craft brews.  It was a last minute decision to go there after planning to checkout a new place named World of Beer.  I decided to wear my new Greenman Brewery tee  shirt to advertise my favorite beer.  While sitting at the bar enjoying ourselves, I felt a tap on my shoulder and a man said "I was just there recently!"  And so began a very lively conversation with Terry and later his wife Amelia, fellow beer lovers.  They had toured all the breweries in the Asheville area and were quite knowledgeable of other beers including Moose Drool.  We hope to see them again.  Real nice folks!

While in Apalach we stopped by the Gibson Inn to have a look.  A beautiful old place with lots of character.

My friend Myra Wiggins Grant had suggested we see it.  Would love to stay there sometime or at least lounge at the bar for a while.

After returning from town we found a note on our door step reading "WE WERE HERE".  It was written on the back of Roger & Margarete Perry's card!  They were our neighbors and co-camp hosts at Lake Powhatan this summer. So Lynn called them and found out they were visiting a son in Pensacola and took a day trip just to check out the campground.  Unfortunately were weren't able to see them but were pleasantly surprised that they had just happened across us so far from NC.

When I first saw this star fish while walking the beach I thought it was dead and I was going to bring it home.  But when I picked it up it started a slow wiggling motion and I quickly put it back.  What a gorgeous little creature!  In all my years of beach walking I don't ever remember seeing one.  What a treat!

When we arrived at Sun n Fun last year we had some oysters left over so Lynn's sister Deb and her husband Walt came over and we finished them off.  We had such a good time that we agreed to bring a bushel next time and so we did!  Although we arrived later than hoped for and it took forever for me to setup the trailer, we finally got to share the delicious treat with Deb, Walt and other friends here.  I took no pictures, though, as I was too busy shucking and slurping!  Maybe next year...yeah, right.

This high speed internet connection is sooo nice!  Picture uploads to the blog take seconds instead of minutes, so I'm inspired to blog more once again.  Lynn's daughter Meghan arrives tomorrow night for a visit of several days so I hope to get some good pics and post them here. 

Thanks for stopping by!