The Shell Factory

On our weekend trip down to Port Charlotte, we stopped into a tourist place called "The Shell Factory". This was classic roadside tourist catering at it's "Florida Finest" - you come for a shells (of which they had plenty)... And you stay for the fluorescent tshirts, Christmas ornaments, pirate equipment and the hundreds of taxidermied animals. Marlon spotted a jackalope amidst the lions, warthogs, deer and other animals (but we didn't get a picture). Good time!!!

Megalodon Mock Up

I got a lead (and a great deal) on a single Thule 422XT rack and we went for a drive to pick it up. On the way back, we stopped in to check out the Calvert Maritime Museum. This place had a little bit of everything I am interested in (almost - no surfboards). Fishing, diving, sailing, aquariums, woodcarving and ecology (and paleontology for Marlon, Noe and La). This place is definitely worth stopping by if you find yourself in the Southern Maryland area. This megalodon skeleton dwarfed everything in the room -