KayakerNC, Your post of Citrus makes me drool!
My Mom still lives in Clearwater and our favorite grove there was Orange Blossom Groves. They suffered a freeze and fungus a few years ago and now they are a car lot....very sad.
We used to take our kids there, as my parents took us.... to watch the big machines sort the fruit and always took great citrus home along with a fabulous orange ice cream cone. Ah....the days.....
I even sent one of our daughters a quart of their orange ice cream, shipped on dry ice, when she had her first baby 18 yrs ago.
Ft Myers is just far enough south to be fairly safe from the freezes. Nice!!
We can't wait to find some place near there, but realize their fruit will be shipped in from a grove further south.
You just triggered some great memories....Thanks!
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