These are all photos taken last month while on a short walk about town before a night shift. I tend to overshoot so it takes me a while to work through all the photos (the end product is 1/3 of the shots I take workout into a picture with only 15 or so out of 300 frames being worthwhile in my opinion). I broke the images into 4 different categories, Shots I liked...
Flying a drone in Key West can be problematic. The city has an ordinance making it illlegal to fly in city limits which is redundant in that you can’t fly within 4 miles of an airport – Key West is only 4 miles long, and has an airport. Actually with the US Navy being here there are a couple of helicopter pads and the airbase on Boca Chica Key. So to fly...
From the mooring field you can see a number of mangrove islands off to the northeast. They are about 4 – 5 miles away and don’t look like much. With the new dinghy motor providing me a little more range I decided to head out there on a pre-dawn Sunday excursion to get an angel for a sunrise shot that didn’t include buildings and stuff in the way...
This was the opening gambit of a series of books I read about an ancient Roman private investigator who’s life was turned upside down by a random event. The thing that struck me about the series was how you can just be going along in life thinking you had a plan and system set up for a while. Then just a random turn of events can change your entire perspective...
Finally have a new computer so I can work on my photography edits that have been piling up. About 4 or 5 weeks ago, we had a little wind storm going on. I had taken my electronics to shore so I could work on my computer but had gotten complacent and didn’t put everything into ziploc bags like I normally do. Trying to lift my overloaded backup up to the boat...
It’s funny, all the books and forums discuss all the macro issues to live on a sailboat. Rarely are mentioned are all the little microaggressions, which if you don’t resolve can make the experience very frustrating. So, here’s a bunch of little lessons learned while living on a sailboat in Key West. But first some more local images. Most of these...
Took a little trip around Stock Island on WikiWiki (the dinghy) to see the islands from a water perspective and also to see what it is like to travel a long distance on a little dinghy. The trip took 3 hours to make total and burned up 3 tanks of gas (the internal tank on this little motor only holds a quart). I’ve clocked my dinghy at 5 mph so it was probably...
Got an early start this morning and did a little exploring around Key West doing some photography. This town reminds me a lot of Venice, CA with a lot of World War II era houses, weird people, and a feeling of community. Hope you enjoy the pictures of Key West.
Key West Photography Gallery
The final leg of my trip from Jacksonville to Key West is the Marathon to Key West Harbor leg. The plan was for this to be a simple daysail trip down the keys with current and wind going for me. As with all things I do there is a “let’s make things go the hard way” tax due. I decided I would take care of this tax before leaving the anchorage...