Good day at Carrabelle

We had our first decent day weather wise yesterday. It got up into the high 50's accompanied by bright sunshine all day long with nary a cloud in the blue sky. We did all the good stuff. Had a nice walk on a white sand beach. Photo below. 

Carrabelle Beach

 The sand here is very firm and easy to walk on unlike some beaches in Florida. After that we toured the village of Carrabelle which took all of 10 minutes. The downtown area is about one city block long off Hwy 98 and that is it. It did have one attraction worthy of note however. Years ago the police department was housed in one room in a storefront which meant they had no holding cell so they took a phone booth and put a lock on it and used it as a holding cell until the offender could be booked and hauled off to the county jail. Photo below.

Carrabelle Holding Cell

 

World's smallest wife in World's smallest holding cell

 After all this strenuous tourist business we stopped at 2 Brothers restaurant for luch. 2 Brothers is a local place, not much to look at but it came highly recommended by a fellow traveler I met in Destin at the RV Park. Photo Below.

2 Brothers

 Mary had a Mandarin Orange salad while I dined on a fried pork chop, greens and field peas. Photos below. 

Mandarin Orange Salad

Fried Pork Shop and Field Greens

My copilot who has been reading the local tourist literature informs me Carrabelle has a crooked light house. Well, who wouldn't want to see a crooked light house so I stop in the local hardware and asked the guy behind the counter where the crooked light house was. He looked at me like I was nuts but did inform me he didn't know about any crooked light house but they did have one about 2 miles down the road on the right. When we got there we found out it was the Crooked River Light House. Copilot error. Photo below. 

Crooked River Lighthouse.

By way of compensation I cocked the camera a little to give it that crooked look. At the end of the day we captured a pretty decent sunset although the tree line kind of obscured it a little. Photo below. 

Sunset at Carrabelle