May 27 & 28, 2017
I'm so thankful to report that the winds and weather have settled down and if all goes as forecast, we should continue to have a smooth, uneventful trip back to Burnt Store. Yesterday, we had a lovely, calm, clear; but hot day coming back up here from Key West. As soon as we crossed through Seven Mile Bridge, the water was so clear that we could easily see down to the bottom. I pointed out to M & D all the flying fish. It was crazy how many we saw skimming across the top of the water! Mom googled it and supposedly they are trying to escape prey.
Mom was also checking out the history of Standard Oil's founder Henry Flager's Overseas Railroad down to Trumbo Point, Key West. It was started in 1905 and finished in 1912. Three hurricanes threatened the project before it's completion and at one point over 4, 000 men worked on it. The final cost of building it was 50 million. Since it was completed around the same time as the Panama Canal, it was considered the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Railroad financially struggled and the Category 5, Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (considered the "Storm of the Century") wiped out 40 miles around Long Key and killed over 400 people. Already bankrupt, they sold the remains of it to the State of Florida which used much of the infrastructure to construct Route 1 or the Overseas Highway.
Here's one website about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Railroad
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| One of our last sites before leaving Key West Bight Harbor. They were being so noisy even I could hear them!!! |
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Taken from the pool looking back out to the Gulf.
Faro Blanco Resort & Yacht Club http://www.faroblancoresort.com/restaurant took over 6 years to rebuild after it had set abandoned for a number of years. It's quite a lovely place now and they have magnificent grass, so I was especially pleased after Key West! M & D fed me and went to dinner here early. They found out through Tony & Nancy and also Phil & Lynne, the Lighthouse Grill does a Happy Hour special from 5-6:30 PM and all entrees are $19.95 no matter what they are listed on the menu. WOW!!!
Mom and dad loved their meals bringing me nothing back...until tonight when mom came back with tuna and sesame noodles...It smelled divine!!! After lunch mom told me that they had the best Cuban sandwich that they had ever had...even better than the Columbia Restaurant. That's saying something!!!
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| You can just see Moondance in the background if you look over the women's right shoulder |
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| Mike, our lunch bartender was nice enough to turn on the Indy 500. Soon after we witnessed Scott Dixon's wreck. Oh My Gosh!!! Amazing that he walked away from that!!! |
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| When Mike wasn't hanging at the bar watching the 500, he was sitting in the pool keeping cool |
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| Mom and Dad took me for an after dinner walk around the marina and look at the size of these lobsters! It's not lobster season so these guys are safe for now... |
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| One of mom's more unusual selfies...LOL! Look carefully... |
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| The beach next to us that we could have used |
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| The sunsets both nights didn't disappoint either... |
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