With the departure of the winter hordes my wife and I decided to penetrate deep into Old Town for a little tourist strolling in Old Key West. We came out from our waterside dinner in time to see the sun setting over what is known as the Key West Bight.
A "bight" in nautical terms means an indentation in the land, or a loop of rope depending on the context and the Key West Bight is very much focused on the water. This dude was putting on a show cutting up a fish. 
It was only on the eighth or ninth attempt to get him still enough to be in focus in the half light that I noticed the prosperous young woman in a bikini in the background. So I figured to include a second picture of the fish gutting to appease the perverts in the crowd. In this second shot she is about the only person in focus.
Have you noticed how much trash we generate? This stuff will all be bagged and hauled 200 miles to a mound of trash collected at the landfill near Pompano Beach. I can hardly bear to think what an incredible waste of energy it all is, especially considering we used to have a waste to electricity plant on Stock Island...
Tourists love their sign posts. Most of these places are unknown to me, and some I have heard of but never visited. I've traveled a lot, and it doesn't amount to that much when you view the shape of the world from your neighbor's perspective.
Boats dragged ashore and used as monuments give me pause. It is very unnatural to see this sort of thing, at least for me. The shop underneath, part of the Historic Tours Empire I believe, sells Chinese made stuff for the edification of visitors.
"The Woolworth of the South" says a sign above the store.
How odd it is to think that Key west's famed Tourist Economy depends on increasing sales of this stuff. Long may it last.
A "bight" in nautical terms means an indentation in the land, or a loop of rope depending on the context and the Key West Bight is very much focused on the water. This dude was putting on a show cutting up a fish. 
It was only on the eighth or ninth attempt to get him still enough to be in focus in the half light that I noticed the prosperous young woman in a bikini in the background. So I figured to include a second picture of the fish gutting to appease the perverts in the crowd. In this second shot she is about the only person in focus.
Have you noticed how much trash we generate? This stuff will all be bagged and hauled 200 miles to a mound of trash collected at the landfill near Pompano Beach. I can hardly bear to think what an incredible waste of energy it all is, especially considering we used to have a waste to electricity plant on Stock Island...
Tourists love their sign posts. Most of these places are unknown to me, and some I have heard of but never visited. I've traveled a lot, and it doesn't amount to that much when you view the shape of the world from your neighbor's perspective.
Boats dragged ashore and used as monuments give me pause. It is very unnatural to see this sort of thing, at least for me. The shop underneath, part of the Historic Tours Empire I believe, sells Chinese made stuff for the edification of visitors.
"The Woolworth of the South" says a sign above the store.
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