1.- Welcome to Key West !!!
Let's spend a virtual weekend in Key West. It's
a 4-hour drive from Fort Lauderdale to the "end of
the world" (the southernmost point of the
continental USA) and it makes sense to stretch our
legs at mile marker 50.
Across the street from this photo (the Museum of
Natural History of the Keys), you will see a
20-meter-long humpback whale painted on the wall of
K-Mart. The artist Wyland put two of his "Whaling
Walls" in the Keys (the second is a painting of the
reef near the headquarters of Reef Relief in Key
West, near Front Street), and he painted a
life-size manatee in this Museum. You can see
iguanas, touch sea life and view models showing the
evolution of life in the sand islands known as
"cayos." The annual financial support of hundreds
of Florida residents has kept the 22 hectares
behind the Museum exactly as they were when the
Spanish first arrived.
[Let's
go ...]
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