Feb 21, 2015   Other than too much wind for kayaking and charter fishing it’s a beautiful day, 70+ plus degrees and sunny.  We are on Key Time, which means no set time to do anything or go anywhere.

We start our morning walking E T along the beach.  We are in for a treat.  Yesterday we thought seeing  4  KITE boarders was amazing. Correction:  Yesterday, I called them sail boarders,  then I googled and found out they are Kite boarders or surfers. oops!  Today there are (David counted) 14  fourteen on the water at once. There are at least 1/2 dozen on the beach waiting or setting up to go out on the water.   I am going to compare it to going to a Hot Air Balloon Festival. The KITES are so colorful.  It is so much fun to watch!  The Kite  Boarders are amazing athletes.  The acrobatics that they were doing were taking my breath away.  I’m hoping they’ll be back tomorrow and E T and I can go watch.  She likes watching them too.  I think she might think they are birds.

E T meets a couple of her favorite friends, two springer spaniels.  I asked the owners if I could borrow one or both for a couple of days to entertain E T.  I think E T is in love.  Good thing she is spayed, we could have been in trouble.

One of our favorite things to do in the Keys is walk the Seven Mile Bridge.  The  “New” bridge is really Seven Miles.  The pedestrian bridge is about 2 1/2 miles out to Pigeon Key.  The bridge was constructed between 1908 – 1912.  It was “modified” for autos and used between 1935 and 1982.  Now it is a wonderful way to walk/bicycle safely miles out across the ocean and enjoy unbelievable views. We have seen dolphin, tarpon, sea turtles.  Today we saw one boat with two fisherman.   We watched one of the men reel in a fish.   When it’s windy, die hard fisherman will fish the bridges.  If David’s brother was down with his boat I’m sure David would have been out fishing one of the bridges today.

I learned how birds (in this case a Pelican) ride the thermal currants.  This pelican was using the bridge.  I wondered why I would see birds gliding along the bridge railings.

There is also a very nice park/walking trail that runs along side the parking area for the bridge.   We took E T Iguana hunting.  In the past we have seen many Iguanas in the mangroves  and along the ocean banks.  Today not a one.   I’m wondering if they scent E T coming.  She likes the chameleon’s at the campground, I’m curious what she would think of an iguana. She’d probably want to play with it.

Because we’re on Key Time,  it didn’t dawn on us until we were driving past San Pablo Church that we could go tonight and not miss Mass his week.  David is going to go fishing tomorrow morning on the Marathon Lady.   We go to 4:00 Mass and who is sitting in front of us but an old friend of David’s.  Isn’t it funny sometimes how things just seem to work themselves out.