OVERSEAS HIGHWAY TO MARATHON KEY

On a crystal clear day with ideal temperatures we drove South to the Florida Keys - we had only a few hoours to explore and we had not been to the keys since the 1970's. It became clear very soon that much development had happened in these 40 years.

For one thing, the area devastated by hurricane Andrew in the early 90's was again a sea of one story single family homes.

Finally after passing Key Largo we entered the actual overseas highway linking a series of small keys. Above we are leaving one of the keys and are driving over emerald green waters.

Here in Marathon key we stop at a small neighborhood park in a non-gated community. The water lapping the coral reef boulders is clear and warm.

MIAMI IN NOVEMBER

This has been our spot at the LP Thompson Dade County RV Park for the past several years. We have switched our internet from satellite to cell, so we are no longer dependent on getting a spot with a clear South-West view to the sky like in this site. This is a nice wide site - very peaceful.

Usually at this time of the year we have so many avocados dropping from the trees in this old University of Miami experimental fruit tree farm that we eat guacamole spread every day.,. This winter there are few avocado fruit on the trees. Above is a good one.