Friday

We hit the beach again today, this time to swim. On the way we stopped to say ‘Hi’ to our favourite local alligator. We went to a local beach where there were real life lifeguards and real life beach babes. The sun was hot and the sea was warm and quite rough, (we are on the Atlantic coast, not the Gulf Coast) so we found it quite tiring and came home for a nap, as we were eating out in the evening. Sally and Carol went and did an Auto Tour of the State Park, where you get a cassette with a tour guide giving information as you drive round the park, they enjoyed this a lot.
We had asked the local rangers for a good place to eat, the consensus seemed to be that ‘Harry and The Natives’ was The Place to eat, so off we went. There was a fabulous sky, it had been building all afternoon. Half the sky (inland) was filled with a huge thunder cloud, while the other half (coast side) was still blue and clear. The cloud was slowly moving towards the coast, against the wind. It filled the sky, not because it was over us, but because it went so high. We could see lightning in the distance. We had a lovely meal at Harry and the Natives. It seemed to be a bit of a local institution, it had been there since about the fifties, run by Harry’s Mum (who still worked there part time, at 93). It had been a café, a motel a gas station and then back to a restaurant, all under the same ownership. The food was good as well. Carol and Ron had a Philly Steak Sandwich each, with salad as a ‘side’, (which always comes before, not along side), Which Carol says was more like a meal for six, Sally had a chicken breast coated with bourbon sauce and crushed pecan nuts, while I had a Prime rib beef. While we were eating the storm broke and the heavens opened.
The puds were not so good, still you can’t have everything (why not?). We had to wait for the rain to slow before we could get back to our car, which would have meant walking about 10 feet in the open, we would have been soaked.
We came back and watched the John Candy film ‘The Great Outdoors’ which I had found when we were in Wal-Mart. We all found it very funny, especially after our experiences with Racoons.