News from the Keys

The lazy days drift by as we try not to get a bad case of the 'Keys Disease' which is nothing more than laziness. We try to walk at least a mile every day but some days we find ourselves hanging loose at the tiki bar with friends and guests of Banana Bay.

We did have a fun trip to Key West for our anniversary. We got a room at the Casa Marina Resort. It was built in 1910 for guests of Henry Flagler who built the railroad from Miami to Key West. The first time I saw it in 1976, it was closed and condemned. It's operated now by the Waldorf-Astoria.

The view from our room

We visited a wild bird sanctuary on Islamorada and took these photos.

Wood Stork

White Heron

Pelicans Gone Wild

Manatees visit our marina every week or so to nibble on the vegetation that grows on the bottoms of the boats.

Our friend, Kimmi, who has a place here and in Boca Raton invited us to Boca to spend a couple days and gawk at the Kardashian wnanna-beez with their overdone plastic surgeries and silicone boobs. I didn't take any pictures. You know what they look like.

Our friends, Dan and Biddi (her Irish nick name) invited us on their boat for a trip to a local dockside restaurant and out to the reef at Sombrero Light Tower.

A close view of the Sombrero Light

We plan to start sailing back to the Chesapeake in mid March and hope to be back in Columbus by mid May. We miss our friends and family back home but we'll miss our marina friends here after we leave.

We'll especially miss Molly, the beagle next door.