Mammoth Takes Mother to Port A, Day 7

 15 May

Today we headed out to eat breakfast at some French cafe and bakery that was supposed to be so great, but it wasn't. We left without ordering. There was nothing on the menu that Ed would eat and he thought I'd said we were eating Mexican (I hadn't) and so he had his heart set on a big Mexican breakfast.

So we left and headed to Eddie's Bakery and Restaurant. Excellent! I had migas, and although I asked for an extra egg in the mix, it seemed somewhat shy on eggs. But excellently prepared with wonderful fried potatoes and heavenly refried beans. Lea's veggie omelet was really, really good too, or so it looked. She only ate about a third of it, but she said it was good.

And Ed ate four flour tortillas with his Huevos Mexicanos. Looked great.  Only thing not so good was the biscuits, but we didn't order those. They just came with the omelet, which is silly Who'd go to a Mexican restaurant and expect biscuits, anyway? 

 

When we returned I took Molly jogging, getting in an hour and ten minutes on the timer but that was with a lot of stopping and smelling and a walking interlude halfway through. We got to the jetties and I had to walk out one of them, looking for hermit crabs. None found, but after we went far enough out on the shoreline we found terns lined up by the edge. A few large ones, like Caspian or Royal Terns, and a handful of tiny ones, probably least terns. When I tried to put the binoculars on them, they flew away.

Views from the jetty:

Then just a little swimming aka standing in the water and then hunting for sand dollars in the shallows. Nice. 

 

...and then supper at Tortugas. Nice place. Another time remember that they charge a 3% surcharge for credit cards.  My Island Salad was excellent, a composed salad with lines of cabbage, corn, and those little Asian fried things; all atop a bed of spinach and topped with a few jalapenos. And I paid $11 for five grilled shrimp--but they were huge and excellently done. Delish.

After that meal I was very tired.  But it was walksies time for Molly and the mosquitoes were out in scads. We had a good walk all the same--most of the people were gone off the beach and so went around to the north and back down to the south road. No Black Skimmers, but okay.