España

I'm certainly not a restaurant critic, but last night we had the best meal of the trip (so far) at España on 4th Street in Fernandina Beach, Florida.  A nice-sized pitcher of house sangria lasted the whole meal and rivaled our homemade recipe.  We started with two tapas: Gambas Costa Brava (shrimp in a spicy piri piri sauce) and the special of the evening, panko breaded, flash fried eggplant slices stacked between layers of manchego and rimmed with a rich mushroom/sherry sauce.......both were unbelievably flavorful and delicious.  David would like to replicate the spicy shrimp dish :)  For dinner, he had his taste buds set on seafood paella and was not disappointed.  I had seared sea scallops with a garlic-parsley-cilantro-wine sauce.  The scallops were cooked to perfection and the sauce did not overpower the tender scallops.  It was a meal we won't soon forget!  Unfortunately, the candlelight wasn't conducive to iPhonography.

Two other exceptional dinners worth mentioning along the ICW were at Saltus River Grill in Beaufort, SC where we had a belated holiday celebration (due to being sick at Christmas) and Coastal Kitchen and Raw Bar in St. Simons Island, GA.  Laura, the bartender at Coastal Kitchen, makes a mean Dark and Stormy!

Today marks one month since we've been "on the go" -- we left Deale, Maryland on 12-13-14 (easy to remember!) -- so far, we love living aboard, but can't wait to sail more and motor less.  I think that's just around the corner.  Weather is improving and we're hoping to get into the Atlantic for our next leg.