Day two

When Rachel and I travel we like to do stuff we cannot when we are home and TV is not something we look forward to.  Day two was really busy and did not allow for much idle time, other than time in the car, to the point where Cathy asked when the vacation was starting.

We left pretty early to get to another specific lunch destination that is only open o the weekend that we had seen on the Travel Channel, Clark's Fish Camp.  What a cool restaurant!  You pull up to an ocean themed building with drift wood attached to every surface.  When you get closer you notice that most of the ends of the drift wood are carved into fish heads.  That was really cool.  Once you enter the building you are greeted by a WHOLE lot of stuffed "taxideried" animals.  A giraffe, a few raccoons, lemur, many birds and a live alligator in a large tank were in the lobby but there was much-much more.  We spent about 5-10 minutes just looking at everything in the entry.  Snakes, leopards, bobcats and WAAAY too many other animals were in the lobby.  After we were done looking we went to the hostess station and asked for a seat.  We walked through even more animals.  A lion taking down a gazelle was the centerpiece but there were so many other major displays like musk ox, a white tiger, many exotic birds, monkeys that again, there is no good way to document them all.  Even pictures do not do it justice.  The place is known for offering exotic meats.  We ordered a kangaroo appetizer and then two different sampler platters for two.

We thought this was a good idea.  The kangaroo was a lean and a bit dry but good however when they brought out the platters for the meals for two, it was an OMG moment.  The platters had normal things like fried oysters, shrimp, whole fried catfish and calamari on it but they had more exotic things from fried soft shell crab to shark, frog legs to gator.  To take a pic of the quality of food it required Kim to stand on the bench, we asked to be seated outside on the dock, and even then, it took up most of the frame.  Needless to say, we did not have a hope of finishing it all.  Between the four of us we probably ate one platter.  We took the higher end stuff with us in case we were hungry that night and I was glad because we wound up in a "meah" place for dinner and even cold, I ate and enjoyed a number of things including the last soft-shell crab.

After lunch we drove the rest of the way to St. Augustine and found that the fort was free because it was National Parks weekend, BONUS!  Are we saw the cannon demonstration, we walked around the old town and saw Rachel's main point, the 18th century hospital museum.  The guide gave us a few interesting lectures but seemed to think cinnamon was God's cure-all.  After that Rachel and I stopped in a wine shop and tasted a few fruit wines which we had never had before.  They were not fruit flavored wines but they made with the fruit.  We got a bottle of mead "honey" that tasted of honeysuckle and was heavy with floral notes and a semidry blueberry that was would make a great dessert wine.