All that is wrapped up in a wonderful natural light that makes photography a joy. It can get warm there, into the 90s, but the few times we have visited there is usually a cool breeze that helps relieve the heat! You have some great restaurants and some tourist traps. You have Conch, it is the capitol of Conch! What is conch? It is a large snail that houses in a even larger shell. In Key West you can eat; conch fritters, conch chowder, conch steaks, conch chips.. ect ect !! You can find them in restaurants all over Florida but the Keys are known to have the best!
We really had a great time and cannot wait to go back soon, real soon, really soon (Phyllis reads my blog and I thought I would drop a hint lol). We spent the trip with Phyllis' childhood friend, Evie and her husband, Billy a really wonderful couple who were fun to be with !! The first day we arrived about an hour before them and after putting our luggage in our room, we took a walk outside to check out the hotel and its grounds! We walked over the the hotel's pier and a charter fishing boat had just docked. It looked like a good day, they had plenty of snapper (a great eating fish) and a few mahi mahi.There were many seagulls and a pelican flying around diving for the fish waste that the fishermen would throw into the water as they cleaned the fish.
As we were watching the action another hungry guest arrived, a good size shark. This pelican was trying to feast on a rather large piece of the fish carcass when he decided that the shark wanted something to eat, the fish or it!! He decided to leave the carcass to the shark!! All in all, a wise choice!!
After Evie and Bill arrived we decided to walk into town and check it out and eventually made our way to Mallory Square, the central place for all things fun: restaurants, bars, street entertainers and some of the best sunsets I have ever seen!!
We found a good Cuban restaurant in the square and had a very good dish of shrimp, scallops and lobster meat. We then started our walk on the boardwalk in Mallory Square. It was already crowded with people enjoying the great night environment, street entertainers and a few of their favorite beverages of choice!!I wrote a blog post last year on the street entertainers and some of the same performers were there this year in addition to a few new ones!As the sun sets, a flock of seagulls started flying around in front of me. It became a game for me trying to compose on the fly, sorry I couldn't resist the pun!!