We had breakfast in our hotel room again. I had a blueberry muffin and Barbara had Cheerios. It’s not too exciting but we really don’t want to eat out three meals a day.
We caught the 11:00 shuttle, but took it to the second stop this time, which is the Southernmost Point. This is the southernmost point of the continental United States. We waited in a line for around 15 minutes to take the following picture (we asked the people in back of us in the line to take it):
We then walked around the area a little bit.
After walking around the Southernmost Point area for a while we walked into town, which was around a twenty minute walk, where we actually met some friends from Buffalo Grove at Caroline’s restaurant. Even before they knew we were going to be there they had arranged to take a three hour boat ride from Ft. Meyers to Key West, so it worked out that we got to see them, which was fun.
Around the table clockwise starting with the red shirt: Bruce and Lynne Glickson, Sal and Jane Sidoti, Barbara and Jim Levie, Kitty Loewy, and Terry Steczo.
Barbara had the fried fish sandwich which she enjoyed. I had the grilled mahi mahi sandwich (they call it a dolphin sandwich, but I prefer to call it mahi mahi, even though the dolphin fish has no relationship to Flipper, who was a mammal). The sandwich was ok, not great.
After lunch we went back to the hotel and hung out at the pool. We didn’t get to the pool until around 4:00, which was around the time we had left the pool the day before, so we didn’t get much sun since the sun set behind the hotel building around 4:30. Barbara and I both went in the water, but Barbara stayed in much longer than me.
We left the pool around 5:15, showered, and caught the 6:00 shuttle into town. This was the only night that we didn’t have a dinner reservation, so we used Yelp to help find a restaurant, and settled on Blackfin, which is on Duval but toward the end of the main drag. The restaurant was very empty, so we were a little hesitant to eat there, but we decided to give it a try. We made a good choice.
From Barbara: Dinner at Blackfin was wonderful. They have a lovely outdoor patio behind the restaurant where we ate. Jim had the tile fish (flakey whitefish) with a mango salsa, mashed potatoes & green beans. Barbara had the Wagyu burger with smoked gouda cheese and a side of green beans. We both loved our meals.
On the way back to the shuttle we stopped at Wicked Lick for chocolate ice cream, and we both thought it had very little flavor and was not creamy. We will not go there again.
We took the 8:20 shuttle back to the hotel, where we finished watching the second season of The Kominsky Method.
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