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I've been itching to get back to AI for a while now. I assume all the restaurants and stores are open. Can't wait to eat supper at Sliders with my bare feet in the sand.
They are open and slowly getting back in the swing of things.
The restaurants we went to were busy, but also didn't have as many tables due to the 6' spacing rules. We went to the Salty Pelican because that's where the kids like to go. It costs a little more for less food than other places, but they seem to like the place. A few nights later we went to Shuckers. It's a newly renovated place right on the mainland side of the bridge and it was nice inside. The food was great, prices were fair, and the service was outstanding. I expect this place will be our go-to for seafood. Sliders is always too busy for us to get into, but the kids like it. The Surf is OK as well and so is The Marina. If you want Mexican food, Cantina Louie has great food (it's just off the island side of the bridge. Right next to that place is a new BBQ joint run by a guy we know from our hometown area called Captain Jack's Smokehouse.
It wasn't as busy downtown as normal for the week following Memorial Day (which is when we do our annual family trip). I expect it will gradually increase as summer rolls along.
The state had actually just opened up Ft Clinch SP for camping the Thursday prior so we had been waiting up to that point to see if we would be able to go. You have to make reservations eleven months out to get a spot and one never knows how things will be when the time to go comes around.
They were still regulating the max number of entrants to the state park also and were turning folks away early in the day.