Wharf Rats

Post Aquarium tourist activity. Nota bene - early afternoon squid fishing at the pier - oh man did I want to get some of that action ;)

Another Southern Tourist Spot

Sharkheads. These tourist souvenir shops can get pretty bright, pretty big, and pretty cheesy (not a bad thing - in fact the cheesier or more eclectic the wares, the better it is in my opinion) - but this place takes the cake - SUPER sized on all of the above factors.

Reptilian Souvenir Paradise

Been a while since I've posted, but we've been looking at houses, I've been trying to finalize the job hunt and generally been distracted. I'll post some recent stuff to stir the pot. We stopped by one of the hundreds of tourist shops just of I-95. This one has a taxidermied 13'6" alligator, several of his smaller friends (just the heads), and a handful of babies that get to swim around all day and look at their elder sibling's heads. In all my travels across this great country of ours, and even across several parts of the planet, I have yet to find a more densely packed, consistently cheesy, and brightly colored place for tourists to buy trinkets to remind them of their great visit. I say this with a big smile because I love cheese!!!

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!!!