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| Key West Florida April 17th -21st |
| These pictures were taken from the balcony of our room. The body of water in background is the Gulf of Mexico. We'd get a really nice breeze every night and the room always smelled like sea air. Not the fishy smell but the nice salty clean smell. |
| This is a view of our "living room" from the balcony. |
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| Thses 3 pictures are at the south western side of the island looking out on to the Atlantic Ocean |
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| These are Mallory Square on the same day. The top 2 were from around 1 or 2 in the after noon and the bottom 2 are at sunset during the infamous Sunset Festival at 7:50 PM on 4-18-03. |
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| This next set of pictures are from the Hemingway House. There are 61 cats that live there all decended from his first cat Snowball. Most of them are polydactyl ( multi-toed, 6 in the case of these cats). They go everywhere and anywhere it's their house. |
| The cat graveyard is where all the Hemingway cats are buried. Some were as old as 20, not bad for mostly outdoor kitties. |
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| This is the typewriter that Ernest Hemingway wrote 70% of his novels on. Rumour has it he stood while writing. |
| Apparently 6 toed cats like wet cement. |
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| Here we have the lovely Audubon House....it's incorrectly named by-the-way. John James Audubon didn't live here long, the house was actually owned and lived in by a wrecker/harbor pilot named Geiger and his family. Audubon just stayed there when he visited the Keys. The first 2 floors are the Geiger house but the 3rd floor is full of original Audubon prints. |
| Here we have some wild Chickens and an Anole. Both are all over the island. These just happen to live inthe Audubon House garden. |
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| The part of the trip I was loking forward to the most was Sea Kayaking. I hadn't eve been kayaking before so I was REALLY excited. We went with Blue Planet Kayak Eco Tours. Kris and I didn't see any sharks or Manatees but we did see a baby Green Sea Turtle. The tour goes out over open water across Cudjoe Channel to the red mangrove "swamps". It was fantastic. We were covered in a fine layer of salt when we got done. I loved it. If I ever get to go back I am definately doing this again. |
| Here we are in the water. Chad said often in this area lemon sharks will swim between people's feet... I SO wanted one to. |
| Chad the tour guide... he can kayak while standing... |
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| This is a Banyan tree. They are all over the island. They are pretty neat, theyhave limbs going all directions and what would appear to be roots going from the top of the tree to the groud. Very tropical. |
| This is President Trumans "Little White House". We didn't tour it but I thought Iougt to get a picture. |
| Birthplace of Pan Am Airlines...nuff said |
| This poorly coloured marked concrete cone thing markes the southernmost point in the USA. It's 90 miles to Cuba from here. |
| At the end of the first day we went for a walk along the Harbor Walk. It follows the harbor and is mostly expensive seafood restaurants. I was asleep about 20 minutes after this picture was taken. |
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