Key West
Swimming at Bahia Honda State Park |
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Part of a bridge from the railroad that used to come through here. It is referred to as Flagler's Folly. |
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum |
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Marla tried to win a stuffed sheep. |
Mommy couldn't get it either. |
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Only about 1 in every 5 million buffalo are white. |
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This picture is made entirely of butterfly wings. |
Vlad the Impaler |
Johnny Eck was a sideshow performer. He was also in the movie Freaks and three Tarzan movies. |
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Let my Daddy out! |
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Marla loved the fun house mirrors. |
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The gateway to the Truman Annex. |
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Inside the Truman museum. |
Part of the "Key West Uniform". As soon as they arrived at the Little White House, President Truman and his staff would change into slacks, Hawaiian shirts and pith helmets. |
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A timeline of important events during Truman's presidency. Some items are dropping the atomic bomb to end WWII and creating NATO. |
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We are reading a new book that Marla bought. It is a reprint of Four Little Puppies, one of Margaret Truman's favorite books when she was a child. |
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The North Garden. |
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Lunch at Red Fish Blue Fish |
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We've eaten at this restaurant a few times. The food and service are great. | 
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Chickens and roosters are everywhere in Key West. |
Marla loves the Island Rice they serve here. |
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Mel Fisher Maritime Museum |
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Marla spun around about 20 parking meters as we walked down the street. |
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Mel Fisher was an American treasure hunter. He found several ships. The most famous find was the Atocha in 1985. They recovered approximately $450 million worth of silver, pieces of eight, gold, jewelry and other items from her. Melfisher.com |
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A pirate cannon! |
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Different types of cannon balls. |
Recovered jewelry. |
A pirate ship! Actually a Spanish galleon, but all of it was pirate stuff to Marla. |
You can lift a gold bar here. |
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Marla and the cannon. |
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Barometers |
An exhibition of items from the slave ship the Henrietta Marie. |
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Lunchtime. |
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Key West Trolley Tour |
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| I - Adrienne - love tours. Just love them. Mark goes along with them, but really they're my thing. |  |
Marla is shopping while we wait for the tour to start. |
Our trolley. |
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They give everyone "air conditioners" as they board. |
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The Pirate's Well. The first fresh water well on the island. |
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This used to be the Red Door Bar. The story is that it was so violent there that if you did not have a weapon, the bartender would give you one. |
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A beautiful mural on a store by the harbor. |
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The dock of the schooner Western Union. |
Margaritaville |
On the trolley. |
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The Key West Lighthouse |
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The grotto at St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church. A nun built it to help protect Key West from hurricanes. |
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A house made of coral. |
The Southernmost House. |
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Key West Cemetery |
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Fishing in the backyard |
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| Marla bought a fishing pole. She has practiced her casting every day since. |  |
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Mark has been practicing his casting, too. |
He is doing really well. |
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Barbados cherry |
Key Lime |
Hibiscus |
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Marla and I have been racing almost every evening. |
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