This place was known not just for fish, but things not normally found on a fish camp menu, like frog legs and gator ribs.
But alligator isn’t just limited to Clark’s menu. You’ll also spot them on display in tanks and on the wall, in what the fish camp’s website says is the “largest public taxidermy collection in the United States.” following heavy rains and high waters from Julington Creek, a tributary of the St. Johns River.
The restaurant as it's known today dates to 1974, when Joan and Jack Peoples first opened Clark’s, according to a history on the restaurant’s website. In a 1996 Times-Union roundup of area fish camps, writers described Clark’s typical clientele as “yacht owners … from across the river in Ortega and pickup truck drivers ... from Bayard ... far more upscale than the average fish camp. Too many Mercedes in the parking lot and the atrium windows are too clean to rate this any higher than 2 on the ramshackle scale.”
This isn’t the first time Clark’s has closed for repairs. In the last decade, heavy rains and high tides flooded the restaurant three times, including 2017, when more than a foot of water came into the dining room during Hurricane Irma. And in September 2019,
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