Key Largo Beach-nic
This Friday our plans for a pre-concert tailgate at the BankAtlantic Center had to be postponed due to the untimely death of Danny Federici, organist and accordionist for the E-Street Band. With our cooler full of goodies, we headed instead to the quiet splendor of John Pennekamp Park in Key Largo to diminish our sorrows. The Keys did not disappoint. The nearly empty park seduced our senses with a cool breeze and the gentle lap of waves against the mangroves. We drove down to the Far beach, just past the Visitor’s Center and the kayak and canoe rentals, to set our tailgate turned beach-nic up on a shady spot. Top-notch Publix subs hit the spot, as did the Doritos and Krispy Kreme crullers. These made-to-order subs, fresh from the Publix deli, are one of the city’s best kept sandwich secrets. For under $10, the hair-net wearing deli ladies will concoct a twelve-inch monster sandwich using premium Boar’s Head deli meats and all the fixings. Publix is also a great place to get the rest of your tailgate or picnic needs, including beverages and utensils. At the beach, we weren’t the only ones enticed by our Publix products. Pennekamp is populated by some of the most audacious squirrels we had ever seen. The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed little monsters jumped right on the picnic table and seemed schooled by Yogi and Boo Boo in the fine art of stealing picnic baskets. They loved the Doritos, but didn’t seem to care too much for black olives.
John Pennekamp State Park [Official Site]
Publix [Official Site]
Comments
Blue Martini, LAN and Publix sandwiches? You're a glutton for the mediocre. Can you shoot for covering something a little better or unique?
Posted by: L2M | April 21, 2008 02:13 PM