More full days of exploring Key West, and we’re slowly honing our process for battling the wind and waves on the dinghy ride in, which is the only inhibiting force for our options. Dry bags, rain coats, trash bags and changes of clothing all apply; yesterday we really smartened up and wore our bathing suits in.
Today is laundry day, and tomorrow we’ll provision, so those should be interesting runs as well- cheers to eating salty food in salt-encrusted clothing!
On Monday we went to the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservancy, which was a big hit. Lots of butterflies and birds flying about, some even stopping on a finger or two to rest.
The museum was in the ‘Southernmost’ district- we went to the southernmost point in the continental United States, and passed on a photo thanks to the line winding around the block- we got these fine folks in our shot, instead!
We walked by the southernmost house, the southernmost beach bar, the southernmost hotel and the southernmost guest house, all the while cracking ourselves up at the possibility of Minnesota’s (?) northernmost hub. Northernmost seasonal effective disorder, northernmost frostbite, etc.
Yesterday we went to the beach, and the kids were gleefully pounded into the sand again and again by the big rollers coming in.
Hours later, fully tossed, we cleaned them up and went to explore Fort Taylor, an important defense site for both the Civil and Spanish-American Wars. Once completely surrounded by water, it is now fully embedded into the coastline and made for a good afternoon stroll.
Today we will finish schoolwork and join forces with our neighbors for crafting clothes and accessories for stuffed animals. Remarkably, with all of the other activities afforded, it is this particular option that the kids have been counting down to do for days. Results to follow.
Woah! Hold your horses…V looks like a teenager in the goofball shot. That is not cool. Good to see you are all having fun though.