Island Music
My Island Home of Key West
The southern most city in the continental United State the island of Key West [4 miles (6 kilometers) long and 2 miles (3 kilometers) wide and located 60 miles (97 kilometers)southwest of the southern tip of Florida] is one of the Florida Keys, a chain of small coral and limestone islands and reefs that curves southwest for 150 miles (240 kilometers) from just south of Miami Beach to Key West. The causeway connecting the mainland with Key West was completed in 1938, just 3 years after the city was rebuilt following extensive hurricane damage. Many of the islands are inhabitable,they are generally covered with a dense growth of low trees, shrubs, and mangrove swamps. The Florida Keys are noted for their tropical vegetation, commercial fisheries, and resorts.Especially popular in winter, Key West is an artist colony, a fishing resort,a commercial shrimping and fishing center, and a cigar manufacturing site.
Endangered Sea Life
When you live on or near the water, the water becomes part of your life. And your life becomes part of the water. The creatures who live in the Seas become your friends and part of your family. You love and protect your family. I hope this information and these links will help to save these sea creatures that are a large part of my everyday life.
- NOAA Coral Reef Monitoring Project
- Pennekamp Park and Reef
- Phyllis the Elusive Manatee
- The Florida Manatee
- Animal of the Week
- Seasonal Movement
- Winter Hot Spot Veiwing and Festival
- Save the Manatee Club
- SAVE_A_TURTLE
Why have so many people come to Key West for a short vacation never to go home again? Is it the turquoise blue waters that go on forever? Is the breath-taking sunsets of magenta and purple, so gorgeous you would swear they are not like any seen anywhere else in the world? Could it be the diverse hundreds of flowering trees from tropical climates of the four corners of the world, brought here by ancient ship captains so long ago? Perhaps its our small two-by-four islands' New England architecture, steeped with the history of ship wreck pirates and rumrunners that keep Key West at the top of vacationers' wish list .Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn, the beauty and simplicity of our little island tells you that God laid his artistic hand here when He painted our incredible open skies, our crystal blue waters with their tropical,colorful coral reefs. The explosions of royal purple bougainvillea and poinciana trees in full bloom.the night blooming of jasmine and cactus during the full moon and frangi-pangi flower fragrances fill the air during our warm tropical nights. What ever the reason so many come here on vacation and never go home!
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