Almost ate with the fishes at Fishy Fishy Cafe

Another beautiful mild day here in Southport, however, it was supposed to be terrible -- reason why we came in here.

The weather is still great here at 4:15pm. There was supposed to be a monster cold front coming across today at noon but it is a no show so far.

We walked about town a bit this morning and stopped at the famous Fishy Fishy cafe for lunch. Karen had the fish taco with grouper and I had the Fishy Fishy basket with shrimp -- both were great. However after awhile folks started complaining that the couldn't leave!! The high tide had come in and coupled with the flooding Cape Fear River the establishment was surrounded by water and it was rising! Fortunately they laid out some scaffolding planks between the entrance and the dry side of the road so we could leave. Probably that dry side was going under soon.

We wandered into a couple the tourist shops near there but they were having to contend with the rising waters too. Apparently the flood waters from Hurricane Matthew were just cresting down here now -- nearly 2 weeks later.

A big problem we are facing is that this late flooding has closed the Socaste Bridge over the ICW -- just passed Myrtle Beach and no boats are getting thru. We need to wait a little longer here or maybe in Myrtle Beach before we can go on or possibly go offshore from Cape Fear to Wynyah Bay near Georgetown, SC. Decisions Decisions, it is all part of the game.