Today Morgane and I went for a ride on a glass-bottomed boat (Thanks, Mom, for the Christmas present!). We rode on the catamaran for about 45 minutes to the coral reef. Then we sat close so we could see the glass bottom and the boat slowed down. We saw a lot of fish. Sometimes it was hard to believe they were really underneath us.
After our boat trip, we had some more key lime pie and bought some key lime juice for my own pies. The owner of this shop explained that there aren’t many key limes on the keys. They were wiped out in a hurricane and now the real estate is too expensive to be used to grow limes.
Later on, Morgane and I visited one of Key West’s beaches. From there, we went to the park. After that, we headed to Mallory Square where there’s a sunset celebration every night.
There were tons of street entertainers and also some folks selling crafts. The crafts were nice because they only let locals sell fairly priced locally-made products. I even saw organic t-shirts.This was in sharp contrast to the rest of the area where they advertise that everything in the store is five bucks.
Morgane loved the performers and even got volunteered for one. Everyone thought she was the cutest! I liked some of it, but didn’t appreciate most of the humour. The best one was a guy who blew giant bubbles while his dog (wearing shorts) collected the money and put it in the pot. We couldn’t resist feeding the dog a dollar bill (twice!).
Now we are back home and getting ready to take off in the morning. We’ll have a little time to see more of the keys on our way back, but we want to pick Carmanah, our dog, up before closing time.
