Dowry Creek Marina - tour of the new restaurant (sort of)

 

This is NOT the restaurant - it’s a local house on the water, nice.

The winds are unrelenting, a steady 20 kts all day long. There’s no option other than to tough it out, you’re certainly not going to affect the weather! So I thought today was a good day to tour the unfinished restaurant. 

Here’s the restaurant at the present, there’s a lot of work to do yet

I was taken on the tour by the owner who’s doing a lot of the work himself. He has grand plans. The restaurant will seat 180 patrons inside and a greater number outside. He wants the restaurant to be a destination for anyone in the area - and for transients - to find a good meal. He has spared no expense in the building of the facility. It could also be used as an event destination such as for a wedding, it’s that big. 

Here’s a view of the proposed seating area

If all goes according to plan, he’ll have it up and running by the fall migration. He wants it to be the premier place to stop along the ICW in the area. He has plans to add slips for larger boats as well as smaller slips for those who may want to come over just for dinner with a water view. 

Steve and I but he’s the one with all the work to do before the restaurant opening!

We continue to watch the weather and there’s no signs of it backing off until Thursday afternoon. With that, we’re still looking at Friday to move on to Alligator River Marina but the weather rules, we’ll see.