Before 10 in the morning and after 4 pm, John's Pass is a quiet and quaint relic of an old Florida fishing village. Tin roofs, wood shacks, rusting old outboard motors, and ancient mariners trying to remember when they lost their rods. But in the middle of the day the quaintness attracts hundreds of daytripping area vacationers. The weather is back to being warm and sunny so the tourists have reappeared like shells at low tide.
We're staying at "cottages" that date from 1946 and haven't changed. It's the only accomodation that's actually IN the village, built by Don as in Don's Dock. So we're literally across a narrow street from the daily circus of strollers and sellers. We don't shop for fudge or take the magic lessons offered. But it is interesting to see cigars being rolled, or to check out "vegetable ivory" ---- a promising substitute for the endangered real ivory. And the world's newest Hooters opened at dockside last Monday (Valentine's Day, get it?). Most other shops have nautical decor like giant sharks or pelicans but Hooters has the World's Biggest Chicken Wing. It's on a giant hook, so is it like bait for tourists ?!?!
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