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Bubba

Jan 2, 2006, 10:53 AM

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RexC and Jonna:

I think, as I am married to a French woman, that I can make mayonnaise at home as I sometimes do. I would never use anything but unaduterated extra virgin olive oil and Dijon mustard in my home made mayonnaise and I am also prone to load it down with garlic to make an aioli but I find this rich and delicious concoction, with or without garlic, a bit much for a BLT.

They have started selling Best Foods with lime in Ajijic at Super Lake and it is truly dreadful. Fortunately, you can still buy it without lime hereabouts.

The beaches at Galveston are truly an ugly brown and the water is murky at best. Most people who have visited the gulf coast beaches from Mexico to Texas to Mississippi cannot believe the local boosters who rave about the beaches from the eastern shore of Mobile Bay to about Panama City. West of Mobile Bay, silted rivers deposit mud in the water and from that point on tthe water is murky. I suppose you have all heard of the Mississippi Cone created from mud deposited by the Mississippi River at its mouth. That screws up the water aesthetically speaking for humans although it doesn't bother the shrimp.

Around Destin, FL, the beaches and water reach their zenith and the water is a beautiful emerald color and crystal clear. The beaches themselves which are normally huge in comparison with Caribbean Mexico, are a pure white quartz which is deposited on the shoreline for less than 200 miles by the Apalachicola River. This quartz originates in the Appalachian Mountains and, by the time it reaches the gulf, it has been ground to a perfect and very fine oval which squeaks when you walk on it. No one knows why the quartz becomes perfectly white since quartz has a rosy pink tint before its watery journey but by the time it reaches the gulf it resembles highly refined sugar and is dazzlingly white. I had the good fortune to grow up on this coast and I thought, as a boy, that this was typical of beaches everywhere. I was dead wrong.

I love the beaches and water on Mexico's Caribbean but the narrow coral sand beaches of Cancun or Playa del Carmen ain't in the same league. On the other hand, the quartz beaches of Northwest Florida can't even remotely compete with the Caribbean for divers.

Why couldn't God put the best beaches and climate and mountains all in one place? His little joke, no doubt.

(This post was edited by Bubba on Jan 2, 2006, 11:30 AM)