Day 46 St. Augustine, Florida

It was a short drive from Mount Dora to St. Augustine so we took the slow route and went directly over to Ormond Beach and drove coastal road A1A 51 miles up to St. Augustine Beach. It's one of the few roads along the Atlantic coast that you can actually see the ocean as there are very few structures between the road and the beach. Despite the dawdling, we still got to our hotel too early to check in so we headed a few miles over to the city part of St. Augustine and had lunch at Harry's. It's been a pretty long time since we've been to St. Augustine and enjoyed walking around the "Oldest City in North America". The hotel called around one o'clock and said the room was ready for check in so we did that and decided to come back to the city tomorrow.

After checking in we drove around the beach getting a feel for the area before stopping at Salt Life Food Shack, not to eat but for a few drinks. It seemed to be pretty active for this early in February, but it was Saturday and looked like a nice place to have a good time. For dinner we went to Sunset Grill which is next door to our hotel. It was crowed but we got a good table in the bar area. It seemed to be a goto place for locals and Snowbirds alike, lots of old people, with which we could easily identify. We had Mahi, Grouper, and Snapper fish bites along with Minorcan Conch Chowder. The fish bites were excellent and the Conch Chowder was unusual in that unlike most conch chowders it actually had conch in it.

We're here for another day and I think we'll spend most of it in town.

St. Augustine Oldest City in North America