Saturday, April 3, 2021

Sailing South aboard Lucy III: 2020-21 (Part III - returning North)

 Crandon Park Marina, Key Biscayne, Florida:  April 3, 2021 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crandon+Park+Marina/@25.7242571,-80.1578257,672m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88d9b58c7ad31201:0x7c5fc5cdf003cf50!8m2!3d25.7242571!4d-80.155637

A marina inhabitant:  Green heron

This flamingo lives on Virginia Key at the Seaquarium.

Aquarium Parrot

Reef fish at Seaquarium

Sea turtle in lagoon at Seaquarium

Manatee at Seaquarium

Dolphin and Killer Whale show

Then we visited the Flipper Show (a movie and television series in the 1960's)

Flipper TV show video can be found at:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6PqrTZsho0

The 1964 movie was called Flipper's New Adventure.


Virginia Key bougainvillea

Rickenbacker Causeway Beach lunch stop.

Marc-  Today was a continuation of the very windy weather with wind of 25 knots gusting to 35.  We walked over the bridge to Virginia Key and the Miami Seaquarium and Rickenbacker Beach.  The Seaquarium visit was fun with excellent whale and dolphin shows.  The "Flipper" show was amazing in that the trainers diving in with the dolphins and jumping with them.  Sue took a video of two of the scenes in the show: 

There were also the Flamingoes: https://youtu.be/4P1lI0MRYos

 We also wandered through the exhibits to a boardwalk around a Virginia Key lagoon.  I was most interested in the sea turtles swimming about around the mangroves.  I took a video of the sea turtle with an announcer describing some birds diving for fish:  https://youtube.com/shorts/-nlXoIEn_m0

Sue and I walked over to the beach next door and found a food truck serving up great food right on the beach with picnic tables and a few palm trees for shade.  The pollo brochettas were excellent and the view fantastic.  This free beach has white sand, warm turquoise water with a background view of Miami. 

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