This quite interesting area stretches along the Florida coast from about Mexico Beach one the west to St Marks on the east. Once this area supplied 10% of the oysters consumed in the US, but now that industry has dried up due to human interference. If that isn’t enough to make you cry, then Mother Nature sends in an occasional hurricane to destroy the things both God and man have built. A hurricane in the fall of 2018 was headed straight for the Eastpoint area where I am now, but turned a little to the west and came ashore at Mexico Beach. Coming in from the east, we saw little of the destruction with just a few empty slabs or houses in bad shape. Yesterday, we drove east to Port St Joe and Mexico Beach for ourselves. Route 98 has only recently reopened along the coast there and it was evident why it was closed for over a year. Between 98 and the gulf, there are many slabs that once had a nice little house on it. There are two large hotels there, only one being rebuilt at the moment. And like the phoenix, from the ashes comes something new. As the price of real estate hit an all time low, more and more retirees are buying up cheap land and battered homes and rebuilding this area into a very nice place to live. We like the area to visit and may ever stop here next Christmas, but this is not our retirement place.