The kind of place you take visiting relatives to show them the other side of Florida, funky without trying to be. Ducks and cats wander around the parking lot and porch out front. They seem to get along fine. Inside, Singleton's Seafood Shack is bigger than it looks. It's a sprawling place of low ceilings and plywood floors that seem to slant toward the river.
Fresh seafood sits on ice right inside the front door.
Shrimp and scallops, grouper and crab. Ray Singleton died in 1996, but the roomful of the wooden model boats he made is still there. Shrimp boats, mostly, along with a few riverboats and other working vessels. He made them all, from maybe 18 inches long to four feet or so. They're not for sale.