CODA : Waiting for a weather window for Bimini, Bahamas (day 1).
24 January 2025
No Name Harbor, Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne , Florida
Outside the harbor view of Miami (this bay is actually called "Outside No Name Harbor").
Marc- The day started out a bit cool once again in at 49 degrees. We responded with hot oatmeal, toast and coffee. Actually the boat furnace kept us at a steady 68 degrees all night. We were just carb loading for a day of bike riding and trekking through the Island forest.
The high point of the day was going out to lunch with our friends Carol and George Edelmann. We went to the Tutto Pasta Restaurant and all of us ordered the daily special: cheeseburgers with sweet potato fries. We will have to try the pasta another time. We rode our bikes up to the business section of the island and along some bike trails. Later we explored some of the nature trails on foot.
Boat Beacon photo
Key Biscayne is 2/3 park land with the center 1/3 is commercial and residential.
The harbor is starting to fill with boats since windy weather is in order for tomorrow.
These two catamarans just anchored in front of us.
Another catamaran anchored behind us.
Nice entry with both a car entrance and a separate paved bike path entrance.
One of many nice paths to the beautiful beaches here.
Maybe we will try this place out one day soon (perhaps when we take the lighthouse tour).
Cape Florida Lighthouse in late afternoon light.
A view of Stiltsville earlier in the day (houses built on the reef just south of Key Biscayne).
Sea Grapes during our walk in the forest.
This looks like Florida's version of Fall foliage season. The sea grape leaves turn red in Winter before falling off. The new leaves grow back immediately, bronze in color, or sometimes bright red, and then become green with red veins when the chlorophyll pigment develops.
Sue: I wore my down jacket today. Wish I'd put on my wool socks, and I could have used a pair of gloves when riding the bike. The cold is astounding, I guess that's why I harp on it so much, but I do prefer cool to hot. Cool is nice. This is cold.
We sent off a batch of postcards today. Now we are doing our nightly routine. Marc does the heavy lifting on the blog. I edit it, I write my little thing. We eat. We watch All Creatures Great and Small, we play with our phones. I sure hope The Bahamas are all they are cracked up to be. Right now (7:30pm) my weather app says it's 67 degrees there with a "feels like" temp of 55 due to wind gusts up to 34 mph.
3 comments:
Key Biscayne was Nixons winter White House. Is that still there?
Thanks for sharing your beach and bike riding adventures. We're relaxing in an Air BNB when we're not bottom painting, working on thru hulls, or internet. I've only been to Key Biscayne for professional training, so it's wonderful to hear about the island, it's harbors and see your beautiful photos. Looking forward to today's warm up!
It’s all gone including the neighbors house of Bebe Rebozo and his mafia affiliations. Even the $400,000.00 helicopter pad we paid for for Nixon is gone.
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