You have to wonder at the vision and determination of the people who carved up the mangroves, blew holes in the rocks and created this:
These developments came from the unpromising land I walk with my dog and illustrate in these pages: mangroves, pines, mud and salt puddles. And now, half a century later the postal service delivers six days a week, year round (long may Saturday delivery last!).
I cannot fault them for their enterprise, else I would still be living in the fog and damp of Monterey Bay, but whoever decided to name these subdivisions had their eyes on the marketing aspects I suspect. 
Me? I would be embarrassed to label my letters with an address on a piratically themed street, however there was never any danger of that. During the boom years these were high priced homes and big houses at that by local standards. I was lucky to find a 700 square foot stilt house on a street as innocuously named as "Indies." Cutthroat Drive and Pegleg Lane would have me saying "Argh! Me hearties!" all day long and it would get tiresome.
Nice homes though in a quiet neighborhood and Cudjoe Key despite the silly street names is as nice an island as any. 
If you have a house on the south shore, along Jolly Roger Drive (I kid you not!) you get magnificent views toward Cuba: 
Just in case you were wondering Cheyenne was at home sulking as I rode the aforementioned Jolly Roger theme'd sub division: 
See, I was serious: 
This is what it looks like in summer, only more so. For a few glorious weeks it's hot and empty, then school gets out and boats start to criss cross the channels again. This has been a long winter for us all east of the Rockies (in Vancouver all summers are long winters). 
This is not 700 square feet of house, trust me: 
This house stained some dark color looked quite distinctive among the pastel and white washed homes littering, Blackbeard, Buccaneer and Privateer Drives. Argh, me hearties! (Told you so). 
I am going to try to persuade my wife we need a cement wall coated in limestone or stuff like this around our house, to repel boarders naturally. 
This is what it looks like with the camera on automatic exposure. 
Can it be a pirate? A palm tree? Or is it just a Bonneville? 
You don't need to go to Disneyland to see pirates of the Caribbean in action.
Argh, me hearties!
Enough of that.
These developments came from the unpromising land I walk with my dog and illustrate in these pages: mangroves, pines, mud and salt puddles. And now, half a century later the postal service delivers six days a week, year round (long may Saturday delivery last!).I cannot fault them for their enterprise, else I would still be living in the fog and damp of Monterey Bay, but whoever decided to name these subdivisions had their eyes on the marketing aspects I suspect. Me? I would be embarrassed to label my letters with an address on a piratically themed street, however there was never any danger of that. During the boom years these were high priced homes and big houses at that by local standards. I was lucky to find a 700 square foot stilt house on a street as innocuously named as "Indies." Cutthroat Drive and Pegleg Lane would have me saying "Argh! Me hearties!" all day long and it would get tiresome.Nice homes though in a quiet neighborhood and Cudjoe Key despite the silly street names is as nice an island as any. 
If you have a house on the south shore, along Jolly Roger Drive (I kid you not!) you get magnificent views toward Cuba: Just in case you were wondering Cheyenne was at home sulking as I rode the aforementioned Jolly Roger theme'd sub division: 
See, I was serious: 
This is what it looks like in summer, only more so. For a few glorious weeks it's hot and empty, then school gets out and boats start to criss cross the channels again. This has been a long winter for us all east of the Rockies (in Vancouver all summers are long winters). 
This is not 700 square feet of house, trust me: 
This house stained some dark color looked quite distinctive among the pastel and white washed homes littering, Blackbeard, Buccaneer and Privateer Drives. Argh, me hearties! (Told you so). 
I am going to try to persuade my wife we need a cement wall coated in limestone or stuff like this around our house, to repel boarders naturally. 
This is what it looks like with the camera on automatic exposure. 
Can it be a pirate? A palm tree? Or is it just a Bonneville? 
You don't need to go to Disneyland to see pirates of the Caribbean in action.Argh, me hearties!
Enough of that.
14 comments:
Dear CS:
I met a woman in my 20's who liked to play pirate. She'd swagger, drink rum, then stagger. After which, I'd give her a jolly rogering.
You Key West bikers know how to travel. I like the barbeque grill on the back of your Triumph.
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads
Blow me down with a hawse pipe (did you know whores have pipes?)what looks like a grill to you is a cooler to people who know how to jolly well roger in the sun. You need a house on cutthroat drive.
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Check out Google Maps and you'll see that Little Torch has the same street names as us here on east Cudjoe. Then imagine what we go through establishing utilities and ordering pizza because of that.
Dear Conch:
I tried an Acai berry drink and gained 147 pounds in 6 weeks!
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads
My wife's bottle of acai is a biology experiment in the back of the fridge. Approvingly.
dear cs (not me)-as long as it's slice of paradise it's worth it.
San Francisco has a neighborhood called the Excelsior, near the Crocker-Amazon Playground. It features avenues with names like Persia, Russia and France, and streets named Paris, London, Moscow and Athens, among others.
It is a seriously sketchy place you really don't want to go, even when it's daylight. I'm sure it was not intended to be that way, but you know how these things work out sometimes...
__Orin
Scootin' Old Skool
Yo ho ho a pirate's life for me
Ah, good to see my stomping grounds as the subject of today's blog. My parents live on Lafitte Drive; not as festive sounding as Jolly Rodger or Cutthroat, but still is adequate for pirate-street dwellers. They're next to the Square Grouper too if they feel the need to part with a large sum of money for a couple plates of food.
Jeffrey said: Yo ho ho a pirate's life for me
I prefer yo ho ho and a bottle of rye.
you guys crack me up, has it been a long winter?
I like square grouper and besides the lady who runs it has been the object of gossip and dresses like Anne Bonney (which street is at the end of Jolly Roger).
yo ho ho and a bottle of 18 year old flor de cana will do nicely and the winter has been dreadful.
More snow here--and they're predicting 1-2 FEET! FEET! They have closed my son's school tomorrow and I can only hope that they won't open the library because the roads are atrocious! ARGHH! (And that was a real growl- not just a pirate themed response) Maybe tent living on Stock Island wouldn't be so bad after all...
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