Thousands stream to Apalachicola for Florida's oldest maritime festival

Thousands of people came to Apalachicola over the weekend to enjoy fresh seafood and hear Country music artist Craig Campbell t the 51^st Florida Seafood Festival.

It w a little chilly and windy on Saturday but that didn’t dampen people’s spirits.

As always the oyster eating and oyster shucking contests proved to be extremely popular.

The winner in the men’s oyster eating division was Gerald Goodman of Southport who ate 245 oysters in 15 minutes.

This was Goodman’s 2^nd year in a row winning the competition; last year he ate over 320 oysters.

Marvin Walters of Midway, Florida came in a distant second with 180 oysters.

The winner in the women’s division was Keira Gibson of Perry who downed 102 oysters, and second place went to Kristen Hernandez of Tallahassee who ate 83.

This year’s oyster shucking champ was Scotty O’Lear of Panama City Beach.

O’Lear is 12 time Florida state shucking champion and 5 time national champion.

He won an all expense paid trip to the national oyster shucking competition in Maryland.

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