Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Weather consistently warm high 70's to 80's and nights in the 60's

Flowers are in bloom along all sidewalks
 A couple of weeks have already flown by while staying in the Gulf Shores and we realize we need to think about heading home!
Soon our extended health care coverage will be running out and we need to file our income taxes in Ontario.  Well and then there will be doctor checkups, dental, hair and a small pile of mail that will be sitting at the farm for us to go through.   Funny when you live in a motorhome you would be surprised how very little snail mail you do receive.  We don't really have any bills to speak of... insurance and licenses that come annually and that is it.  We get all credit card, satellite tv, investments, cell phone via the internet.  Mom and Dad will be happy to see us back in the neighbourhood and we will be glad to see them too:)  They have wintered well again with us away.

Along the coastal highway in Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Perdido Beach there are the most beautiful high rise condos.  This one always draws me in.... can you imagine the views from these suites???  The building appears to be completely glass all around.

We met some very experienced RV'rs in the park who recommended this dive of a place to eat seafood down in Perdido Key so away we went to find out.  Oh my their were not kidding it was a dive however the food was quite good.  Shrimp and Crab Bisque with lots of hunks of seafood in it and Royal Reds that are a early spring shrimp that are only caught from the gulf around to the outerbanks in very deep water - up to 1/2 a mile!  They are very red when cooked and extremely sweet.  They serve them in one piece so the eyes are giving you a once over, ha ha.... and then you peel them and dip them in butter, just like a tiny lobster. 

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