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Tammy is holding a huge, heavy Asian pear that
Julia got from Texas.
These are the largest Asian pears we’ve ever
seen.
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Eating
breakfast in Julia’s fabulous dining room.
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Driving from Montgomery
to Mobile.
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Bridge on the way to Mobile
and the Gulf
Coast.
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Historic
downtown Mobile.
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Very quaint and
cute.
Mobile appears to be a nice vacation
town,
geared towards
summer beachgoers,
but there were
still quite a few people here now in October.
It may be
year-round, as the weather is still very nice,
about 80-85
degrees.
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Historic downtown Mobile.
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Historic
downtown Mobile.
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Historic downtown Mobile.
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Mobile is a
shipping port.
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Julia heard that Mobile
has the largest IMAX theater in America.
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We tried to
eat at this restaurant, but it was closed on Sundays.
Dew Drop
Inn is known for its hot dogs loaded with toppings.
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Wentzell’s Oyster House is reknowned for its
oysters and seafood.
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The inside of the restaurant, covered in sassy
one-liners written on notecards.
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There is an annual oyster eating
contest. In an hour, the female champion ate about 280 oysters, and the
male champion ate about 405 oysters!
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The inside
of the restaurant.
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During happy hour
on weekdays, raw oysters are only 25 cents each!
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Warm, buttered, toasted rolls. Yum!!
Just looking at these make me hungry.
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Chili and
banana pudding.
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From left to right, fried oysters, black bean
and corn salad, and fried shrimp.
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Fried oysters are yummy! So squishy.
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West
Indies salad made of crab.
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It tastes like
ceviche.
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Rated the best seafood gumbo in the nation.
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Oysters broiled
with parmesan.
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Raw oysters!
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Served with lemon juice and horseradish.
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Nice tunnel on the way to the Gulf Coast beach.
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I thought
this was a pretty toll plaza.
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Hotels along the beach. Rather resort-y.
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More
hotels along the beach.
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Posing before walking to the beach.
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Walkway
to the beach between 2 resorts.
The
coastline was very developed and this 2-foot wide walkway
was all
the public access we could find.
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Beautiful white-sand beach! There was a storm
brewing out at sea so it was overcast and windy, but it was still
pleasant; the sand was super-fine and soft, and the water was warm.
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Someone built a fancy sand fort.
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Here’s a close-up of the sand fort.
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Another
close-up of the sand fort.
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Felix’s Fish Camp Restaurant.
It was never clear what a “fish camp” was.
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This
restaurant had a very Disney-feeling façade.
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Posing near a giant fiberglass fish outside
the restaurant.
Julia is making a fish face.
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Julia is
making another fish face.
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Walking to the restaurant.
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It has an interesting entrance.
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Still
walking into the restaurant.
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Jocelyn has a soup sampler: crab soup, seafood
gumbo, and turtle soup.
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Jocelyn’s
having a LOT of oysters!
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Just kidding. One plate is hers, and the other is
mine.
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Tammy has
boiled gulf shrimp.
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A fairly
big gas station with a restaurant inside.
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Interesting building. We couldn’t figure out
what it was.
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