Key West and More

Too fat and slow to properly pose with the cannons on Cannon Beach at John Pennenkamp State Park before the 10 second timer expired.

 My first time at the Park, on my way down to Key West

Channels thorough the mangroves offered a buffer to the wind

 

 

School, or scout troop

 Rental power boats to go to the reef

Kayaks for kool people

 

Iguna

 

 

The beach at John Pennankamp Coral Reef State Park is named.....Cannon Beach!

Back on the Overseas Highway

 Seven Mile Bridge

Pigeon Key

 

 Bill Keogh's Paddling the Florida Keys Book revealed this launch site.  Before the sign.

 I have launched at the end of Long Beach Road on Big Pine, this spot is before you get to the end.

 

A bit more wind protected, I hoped.

 

 Interesting navigational aid. Near some homes.

 

 

 Great white heron

White legs distinguish it from the black legged great egret.

 

 

 

 Landed

 On foot

 

 

 I think the pics above are below are an area called "Spoonbill Sound" on Cudjoe Key.  I did not see any.

Halloween tree at my sister's

The Green Parrot. I came down to Key West for two reasons.  Well, 3.  Family.  Make that 4. Kayaking.  See Buckwheat Zydeco at the Studios of Key West  Do the Zombie Bike Ride.  The latter put on by my nephew, Evan's bike shop.  This year, the ride had a band.  Revel in Dimes

performing at the Parrot  A family affair.  The drummer is Camila's (Evan's spouse) cousin.

The kids played across the street on the courthouse lawn.  Max zoom, from the bar. Monica said it was the first time Olivia, Phineas, Cannon, and Aviva, her grandchildren, had been at the same place at the same time.

 We, Monica, Bill, and I, stopped at a cheese steak place for bite

 Appropriate that Temple was on the tube

 

 

 

I last saw Buckwheat at Bastille Days, in Milwaukee.  Chances are the washboard player was not yet born in the mid 1980's.  He is Stanley Dural's (Buckwheat Zydeco) son.

 

a taste of the show