Apalachicola is to the west and home of the Stephen C. Smith regatta and yes oysters supreme the home of the best in the world and a great regatta if they still have it, all boats are invited check it out the cats and sail boards used to show up but in the later years there were less and less I haven't been there in about 10 or so years but in the 90's it was one of my favorite regattas

Alex

Yup it's April 26-28 just looked it up same weekend as the Dauphin island race check it out it's a great race and the beer used to flow like water as they bring a truck with 5 taps on the side and it's free all weekend WOW

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I'd have to agree with Jack...

While Mosquitos have been known to carjack the occasional tourist down here (we are in the everglades, you know. There is one species here slightly smaller than your thumb), the nightly invasion of no-see-ums along the beach will reduce the strongest people to tears.

It's almost fun to go to the beach for sunset, and while you're making a hasty retreat at dusk you start to hear the screams of the drunks who are still lying on the beach...

And from what I can tell, there is no really effective pesticide for those thingies (well, besides DDT but I don't think that's legal anymore)

Charleston at sunrise during the summer isn't any better with regards to no-see-ums. While driving out to setup a Hobie 18 one morning (trying to beat the people that park and block one of the few beach accesses on Folly) he told me that we could probably only withstand about 20 minutes at a time before we go "full monkey". It took about 10 minutes before we both were running away while jumping up and down waving our arms over our head as those f'ers devoured us.

This part of Florida is very unique, from Cedar Key to St. Marks. Very remote but worth a visit.

I have done parts of this on my Wave and in kayaks.

I wouldn't worry much about gators or snakes. It is the No-see-ums that will take you down in a hurry. They are usually not out over the water, but thrive around boat ramps, mangroves and beaches. They come out in force just before dusk.