Wednesday, March 27, 2013

SLSU032413A – Tuesday March 26th, 2013


A Key West Day

 

We woke to a rather blustery day. The winds were up and it was a bit cool. Too cool for the Florida Keys. With the wind blowing the way it was we knew that diving would be out so the crew made the decision to have their mid-week break and go to Key West for the day. We had a nice cooked breakfast of scrambled eggs then everyone got dressed for a day on the town and off we went.

Key West is a nice little town, full of interesting people and things but it is little. Once you’ve walked across it once or twice you realize how small the Old Town section really is. The crew spent the day poking in and out of t-shirt shops, going to museums and soaking up the ‘local color’. We all met for dinner at Jack Flats where the food was good but they just couldn’t get Mike’s order right.

After dinner we headed to the Sunset Festival at Mallory Square. It’s a collection of street performers that gather on the waterfront to entertain the crowds and beg for money. There are acrobats, jugglers, singers, statues and the famous Cat Man. The crew went directly to the Cat Man to catch his rather unique show. You can see acrobats anywhere but you can  only see the Cat Man and his trained cats in Key West. After the show the crew met with the Cat Man to take pictures and get autographs.  Wait until you see the pictures of this character.

By the time we were done with the Cat Man it was quite cool and everyone had seen enough so we headed back to the boat.

I don’t know about everyone else but I went out as soon as my head hit the pillow.

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