Ah Sunset at Bahai Honda ...was full of trauma yesterday. (Read Pat's blogg on 1-22, was finally able to get him to write something especially after I told him I was going to write up the hat incident if he didn't. See him hatless below.) The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship (kayak) was tossed, if not for the fearless captain (Pat) the deck chair would have been lost (as well as Pat's hat). The crew (Stefani) was laughing so hard she almost peed in her pants. Everyone who had a bay view came out and wondered what all the cursing was about. First of all it was pretty much low tide, but Pat lost his hat near the Overseas Highway-US 1 and the currents and water was deeper there. Plus we had seen sharks in the area early in the day. The corals were covered with sea urchins and are not easy to walk on. Bahai Honda means deep bay and the park is one of the deepest natural channels in the Keys. The park has one of the largest remaining stands of threatened silver palm, and yellow satin wood, rare lily thorns. We had fun yesterday watching Rainbow Parrotfish feed on the coral, Sargent Majors, Porkfish scurry away from Baracuda and Grouper. What you see is the background in the sunset photo is what is left of Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway dream-never finished. You can walk on parts of the bridge and look down. The other photos is the new US 1 Oversea Highway. The Keys are islands formed of pre-historic coral reefs connected by bridges of the Oversea Highways.
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| Sunset on the Bay |
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| Pat sitting hatless in front of the new Overseas Highway. |
I will send more photos before we leave.
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