We got a slight hint that there might be a few other people going south to the beach when we reached the exit to turn onto the Beach Expressway - a 4 lane road headed south to Orange Beach from I 85.
About 70 miles further south we headed into Foley - the outlet capitol of this area - looking for a place to eat a shrimp po'boy. Well we found it - the #1 restaurant in Foley was River Grill #2. It was definitely a local, real place. We ordered a Shrimp Po'Boy and a Crawfish Pistol. With every order you also got some Swamp Soup. The Po'Boy was great. The Crawfish Pistol a local thing - it was some dough stuffed with crawfish and shrimp and a great sauce and then fried. It was small and we each got about 4 bites...it was good but that was enough. The swamp soup was a clear soup with white beans, greens, and some seafood. Interesting but the small cup was enough. Ben liked it but it was not my favorite.
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| Swamp Soup |
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| Shrimp Po'Boy |
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| Crawfish Pistol |
Then on to the beach. Across an expensive $2.75 toll bridge.
Ben thought he made reservations at the Holiday Inn Express in Orange Beach and we quickly found it - not the right Holiday Inn Express...we were at the one in Gulf Shores about 8 miles away...no problem we found it. Only problem was I had done all the seafood restaurant research in Orange Beach - not Gulf Shores...oh well there are plenty of seafood restaurants! We have never stayed in a Holiday Inn Express because we use the Choice Hotel Points Hotels when we can. However this vacation is compliments of most of our points earned over the past year on our main MasterCard. In fact it was selected because we had 4 nites without paying anything! Pretty good for charging stuff over past months. Nice hotel about 1 mile from the beach. Nice pool, nice room and they upgraded to a suite for some reason....Ben says he just walked in at the right time and it was ready!
We sat by the pool in the sunshine for a bit and then after a little research we ended up at DeSoto's Seafood Kitchen for supper. This was an older restaurant probably here for years. We both liked the atmosphere and they were super busy. Of course it was 5:30 on a Saturday night. We did not wait long tho and the service was great. Neither of us were very hungry but knew we needed to eat something. I think that Crawfish Pistol stayed with us all afternoon! It seems my only photos of the day were of food and traffic! Supper was a salad and coconut shrimp for Jane and salad and seafood bisque for Ben. Both great.
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| Coconut Shrimp |
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| Seafood Bisque |
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