April 10, 2013 Cape San Blast!

Fisherman's Choice!

Cape San Blas Beach

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Indian Pass Raw Bar

Finally, We are heading to the beaches at Cape San Blas!  We love this beach and discovered it 4 years ago while renting a  house in Indian Pass.  Dave wanted to stop for breakfast on the way.  Ha!  It gives him a little break from cooking.  We decided to stop at the Hut Restaurant in East Point, right on our way.

Unfortunately, it was too late for breakfast so we had lunch.  I ordered the lunch special - roast beef sandwich and Dave had their special fried pork chop.  I have to say that this was the worst meal that we had on this trip.  The roast beef was thin slices of processed meat on plain white bread and covered with gravy made from a mix and instant mashed potatoes for $6.99.  I added the salad bar for $1.99 which was just OK.  Dave thought his pork chop was good but green beans had no flavor.  The atmosphere was very nice with friendly employees.  Maybe, it would be worth going to have their seafood plate, not sure.  I am usually not very picky when it comes to food either.  But, this was pretty bad and left most of it on my plate.  I think we will cross this place off our list for next year.

Fisherman's Choice Bait, Tackle & Seafood Shop is across the street from the Hut.  Dave likes to stop here for his live shrimp bait.  It has a hodge podge of fishing stuff and convenience store items.  I was thrilled to see this old cooler filled with ice and glass bottles of various sodas - Nehi Orange, cream soda, Faygo Red Pop, A&W & Dog & Suds Root beer.  I had to buy a Dog & Suds Root Beer.  Oh my goodness!  It brought me back to my high school years when we used to get our root beer in a large glass mug.  This tasted like the real deal & no corn syrup.....just sugar - good old fashioned sugar!  :-)

Our afternoon at the beach was amazing!  The sand is pure white and the water is crystal clear with nice large waves.  Dave had good success fishing for Whitings.  If he only would have know there is not a size limit on Whitings, as he threw about 8 fish back into the ocean.  He still had a good time and that is all that matters.

Since our lunch was such a disappointment, we decide to stop at the Indian Pass Raw Bar.  This place is popular, so we got there early.  I'm sure glad we did, because it was packed by 5:30PM and it's on a week night.  This Raw bar only serves raw and steamed seafood - crab legs, shrimp and oysters & no sides.  Now, this is what we have been waiting for!  Incredible fresh seafood in a fun atmosphere.  Everything is on an honor system.  You help yourself to your beverage.  They even had "self-serve" draft beer on tap for $2.00 a glass.  When you are finished, you tell the cashier what you had and they ring you up.  This place is a MUST STOP to place and we will be coming here a lot next year!