Florida Tour 7 | |
Key West | |
Heading out across the Keys on the Overseas Highway (US 1) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The scenery is perhaps less dramatic than you would think as when not on bridges the road is lined with high foliage on both sides - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The railroad was for many years the only connexion until it was swept away by a hurricane on Labor Day 1935 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The most famous bridge is Seven Mile Bridge - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The railroad, as Hemmingway predicted, was never rebuilt but most of its bridges remain (left); entering Key West (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Key West from the tower of the Key West Shipwreck Museum - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Key West from the tower of the Key West Shipwreck Museum - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
US Coast Guard vessel and cruise liner CELEBRITY MERCURY at Key West - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
While perfactly capable of doing their own fishing, storks and pelicans are always grateful for a free meal - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Pelican on the waterfront at Key - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Preserved US Coast Guard cutter and World War 2 cutter MOHAWK - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
There are no high rise buildings in Key West and the tree lined streets give some respite from the sun, but not the humidity - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Key West is easy to get around on foot - or bicycle - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Sloppy Joe's Bar - a favorite watering hole of Ernest Hemmingway - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Interior of Sloppy Joe's where the menu has such delicacies as "for whom the grill tolls" - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Hemmingway's portrait under a swordfish on the wall of Sloppy Joe's PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Duval - probably Key West's most well-known street PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Cuban cigars for sale - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Whistle Bar (above) and Hard Rock (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Red Corvette (above) on Duval (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Dollar bills hang from the roof . . . |
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. . . in this bar on Duval - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Art deco at the Strand (above) and pedal power (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Typical clapboard houses in Key West - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Key West street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Banyan tree (above) and end of US Highway 1 (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
When cock fighting was banned some years ago . . . | |
. . . the chickens were turned loose and now roam the town - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
One of Key West's best known attractions is the Hemmingway House - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The grounds and the house are open to the public who can see the swimming pool that was a gift from his second wife, Molly Parker - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
But many people come to see some of the 60 or so cats that live at the house - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
More than half are polydactyl cats - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The cats have the run of the garden and of the house - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The master bedroom - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The lounge could be straight out of 1950s East Africa - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Across from the Hemmingway House an hotel and Lighthouse - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
A tourist train runs round the town - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Approaching the Southermost Point of Mainland USA buildings seem to vie with one another to be the southermost house or the southermost hotel - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
A buoy marks the actual spot - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |