From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com
Tim and Linda Bunyan
"Looking Out Our Backdoor"
With the Low Hazard GREEN Flag and blue skies, we are ready for a boat ride!
Other visitors fine delight in kite sailing from the state park beach.
This is a satellite view of the Curry Hammock State Park located on both sides of US 1 on Mile Marker #56.2 the Crawl Key in the Florida Keys. There are large areas of mangrove swamp, rockland hammocks and seagrass beds essential to the Florida Keys.
Departing the marina, we arrive the 5-acre island to buildings which remain. Now used for housing for educational groups to administrative offices for the non-profit Pigeon Key Foundation.
The Railway remains; refurbished as a pedestrian bridge (7 miles here).
Work camps barracks; now used for students that come for a week camp.
Administration and museum building.
The Rail (7mile bridge) remains nearly refurbished as a pedestrian bridge.
You can see the water pipe attached to the bridge; carrying water to the Keys from Miami.....still.
7 mile Rail Bridge and New Highway 1 Bridge. The dock at Pigeon Key and the former Workcamp.
After an afternoon of boating and exploring the Key, we go to lunch at the Keys Fisheries Restaurant recommended by our Travel Friends: Nina and Paul.
Fish tacos dockside.
Lunch guest.
Appropriate to this area, and saying goodbye to Mike and Sherry as we depart Miami to head south toward the Florida Keys, our departing words are: "See ya later, alligator" !!
It has been fun-filled with our friends spending the good part of August together. Mike and Sherry first joined us in one of the largest cities in Florida: Jacksonville; then to the oldest city in Florida: St. Augustine; then our keenest in Florida: Palm Beach and Jupiter; and finally to the most populated city in Florida: Miami. It was a huge 'Cruise by Land' and memorable toward the fine friendship we are eager to capture and enjoy.
Now, Tim and Linda have arrived in the Florida Keys, on Crawl Key at Curry Hammock State Park. This exclusive, tiny state park demands attention and reservations 11 months in advance. As planned, Tim recorded our timing to arrive here from the big city of Miami to this 28-site state park.
With the Low Hazard GREEN Flag and blue skies, we are ready for a boat ride!
Other visitors fine delight in kite sailing from the state park beach.
This is a satellite view of the Curry Hammock State Park located on both sides of US 1 on Mile Marker #56.2 the Crawl Key in the Florida Keys. There are large areas of mangrove swamp, rockland hammocks and seagrass beds essential to the Florida Keys.
We set out on a boat excursion to Pigeon Key, one of Flagler's Overseas Rail Workcamps for the Florida East Coast Railway.
Departing the marina, we arrive the 5-acre island to buildings which remain. Now used for housing for educational groups to administrative offices for the non-profit Pigeon Key Foundation.
The Railway remains; refurbished as a pedestrian bridge (7 miles here).
The Kitchen and dining hall continues to be utilized.
The Rail (7mile bridge) remains nearly refurbished as a pedestrian bridge.
You can see the water pipe attached to the bridge; carrying water to the Keys from Miami.....still.
Fish tacos dockside.
Outback of the restaurant is the fishing, crab, and lobster crew preparing the traps for Opening Day Stone Crab Season October 15th thru May 15!
Nice stop as we enter the Florida Keys.............approximately 1700 islands make up the Florida Keys. The Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida.
Onward: South to Key West on the Overseas Highway.
