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Sailing on the Ocean off the Florida Keys

Photo by Lee Smith

It was actually very windy to sail, there were many sailboats out enjoying the day

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Car Show – Curry Hammock State Park, Islamorada

Photos by Lee Smith

An unexpected stop at Curry Hammock State Park to view a Car Show with some spectacular vehicles.

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1965 Black Shelby Cobra – 0640_1_2	1965 Shelby Cobra – 0625_6_7	1965 Shelby Cobra – 0622_3_4
Red 1965 Shelby Cobra – 0566	Red 1965 Shelby Cobra – 0563	Silver 1965 Shelby Cobra – 0567
1965 Shelby Cobra 427 – 0562	1962 Black Chevy Corvette Stingray – 0586	1962 Black Chevy Corvette Stingray – 0585

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Spanish Harbor Key – Bahia Honda Bridge

Photo by Lee Smith

Heavy clouds on a Saturday morning – we were hoping for a break, but not this day. Image taken from Spanish Harbor Key of the Bahia Honda Bridge in the background with petrified coral/mangrove roots in the foreground.

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A Lone Mangrove – Key Largo, FL

Photo by Lee Smith

I walked in the shallows around a mangrove covered island off Key largo, Florida and found this lone Mangrove growing away from the island. (Photo taken in 2012)

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Life will find a way – Islamorada

Walking along a path lined with small mangrove trees on the bay in Islamorada, I was amazed of how these mangroves can grow in the most inhospitable conditions. Islamorada, a “Village of Islands,” is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida

Founders Park, Islamorada, FL – IMG_8451_2_3-BW

The Marvin Adams Waterway, Key Largo, Florida

Visitors drive across this bridge on highway U.S. 1 – located about mile marker 103.6. The vertical walls rise about 15 feet high and the local boaters refer to it as “the Cut”. It took a year-and-a-half to complete the half-mile cut in 1961 with a temporary bridge on the bayside. Twelve years later, a four lane highway bridge was built. Interesting story – http://www.keyshistory.org/thecut.html