Should probably mention that our houses are all okay. Lots of the Marinas are having buildings collapse.
While in the keys, I was able to get a pic of a wild chicken on the streets of Key West. Saw two roosters that were twins and one hen or pullet. The hen was eating a chicken bone! They have a lot of open door restaurants or open to the streets, bars and cafes, where the folks feed the chickens. I was so rushed that I did not get the oppurtunity to take a pic of the sign that read... "Please don't feed the pigeons or chickens". I thought it was funny. Talked to one... shall I say a displaced looking person who was feeding pigeons and right there in the mix was a rooster!
One of the funnier moments was when we went to a marina called Robbies, (it's on the
www.), where you buy a bucket of bait fish, a token bottle of beer, and feed the tarpons, (very large fish that look sort of carpish but very long). Saw this place on the travel channel a couple weeks before we left. Anyway, my youngest son had his bait bucket and was not paying attention as he walked out on the dock and was confronted by a pelican! They are everywhere waiting for a free lunch. If you turn your back for even a moment, they will try and stick their beak into your pail. He thought the pelican was going to jump on him and burst into tears!
The offender:
The victim or the offended:
At the end of the day there was... dare I say it? Okay I can't resist... "No harm no - fowl-"! Sorry bad pun but I couldn't resist. We went back to Robbies several times and we all strapped on our big boy boots and chased the offenders away without further issue.
We spent a week picking coconuts up off the street and return to picking icecicles (sp) off our noses! It was worth it to see this just a week ago today:
