The African Cemetery has become a thing of beauty.
It's taken a while for this marker to be completed. It was created to commemorate the dead off a Spanish slave ship that was brought to Key West and it's unhappy occupants were forgotten by the US government and cared for by the local Post Master before the survivors were repatriated to Africa. Further up the beach the business of living was well in hand. I have no idea what this beach employee was actually watching but one has to presume it was bodies in skimpy clothing, as indicated by his attentive posture.
The booth looks like the perfect beach job in the perfect Southernmost Town.
I am more hidebound in my adherence to rules than most people give me credit for, and it annoys me when people flout rules like these people were. Dogs are welcome all over the place in Key West including some bars and restaurants now. But at Higgs beach they are not allowed on the sand thanks no doubt to some owners' inability to pick up after them. Why these people had to run their dogs on the beach when the rest of the park is available, I don't know.
Oh well, people do the damnedest things and I wouldn't have a job if they didn't.
It's taken a while for this marker to be completed. It was created to commemorate the dead off a Spanish slave ship that was brought to Key West and it's unhappy occupants were forgotten by the US government and cared for by the local Post Master before the survivors were repatriated to Africa. Further up the beach the business of living was well in hand. I have no idea what this beach employee was actually watching but one has to presume it was bodies in skimpy clothing, as indicated by his attentive posture.The booth looks like the perfect beach job in the perfect Southernmost Town. I am more hidebound in my adherence to rules than most people give me credit for, and it annoys me when people flout rules like these people were. Dogs are welcome all over the place in Key West including some bars and restaurants now. But at Higgs beach they are not allowed on the sand thanks no doubt to some owners' inability to pick up after them. Why these people had to run their dogs on the beach when the rest of the park is available, I don't know.Oh well, people do the damnedest things and I wouldn't have a job if they didn't.
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I think I have to agree with your "perfect beach job in the perfect Southernmost Town" statement. That really does look nice. One of these years I'll make it down to KW.
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