Driving to Marathon under the pitiless May sun, everything appears to shimmer as though a mirage in the desert.
I have been struck by the weather forecast for the coming week, my "short" week when I only work a short, four hour shift Tuesday night and a full 12 hours Wednesday night - the weather will be perfect, they promise. I believe the gods are losing their grip because usually when my short week rolls around cloudy skies and crappy light for photography are my portion. Not this coming week apparently. Blue skies, bright sun and crisp contrasts will be my portion. Oh Joy!
I understand why visitors slow to a crawl on this famous bridge and happily the double yellow line is dotted so passing is allowed, but on Thursday I sat at the back of a line of cars and crawled to the top of the seventy foot hump to allow sailboats underneath and paused for a picture. I had Cheyenne along and was thus in the car. The view to the city of Marathon always looks good. By the way Marathon Key does not exist, the city is Marathon and it is made up of Knight's, Boot, Vaca, Fat Deer, Long Point and Grassy Keys (and maybe a couple I've forgotten). The city is ten miles long, incorporated in 1999 and has about ten thousand permanent residents. If Key West is too touristy and pretty and gay Marathon is the determinedly dowdy working class treeless second choice of cities away from the mainland. My wife likes stopping at Publix in Marathon because she thinks it has broader choices than the one in Key West and their West Marine store is bigger too, as are their boatyards.
The mirage continues.
Temperatures have jumped a little and we are now averaging 90 degrees by day and 80 by night though the southeast breeze continues to keep summer's full heat and humidity at bay.
http://conchscooter.blogspot.com/2008/05/ninth-wonder.html I checked out the Seven Mile Bridge in depth a couple of years ago with lots of pictures.
To enjoy summer on the water you don't have to be on a boat.
I have been struck by the weather forecast for the coming week, my "short" week when I only work a short, four hour shift Tuesday night and a full 12 hours Wednesday night - the weather will be perfect, they promise. I believe the gods are losing their grip because usually when my short week rolls around cloudy skies and crappy light for photography are my portion. Not this coming week apparently. Blue skies, bright sun and crisp contrasts will be my portion. Oh Joy!I understand why visitors slow to a crawl on this famous bridge and happily the double yellow line is dotted so passing is allowed, but on Thursday I sat at the back of a line of cars and crawled to the top of the seventy foot hump to allow sailboats underneath and paused for a picture. I had Cheyenne along and was thus in the car. The view to the city of Marathon always looks good. By the way Marathon Key does not exist, the city is Marathon and it is made up of Knight's, Boot, Vaca, Fat Deer, Long Point and Grassy Keys (and maybe a couple I've forgotten). The city is ten miles long, incorporated in 1999 and has about ten thousand permanent residents. If Key West is too touristy and pretty and gay Marathon is the determinedly dowdy working class treeless second choice of cities away from the mainland. My wife likes stopping at Publix in Marathon because she thinks it has broader choices than the one in Key West and their West Marine store is bigger too, as are their boatyards.The mirage continues.
Temperatures have jumped a little and we are now averaging 90 degrees by day and 80 by night though the southeast breeze continues to keep summer's full heat and humidity at bay.http://conchscooter.blogspot.com/2008/05/ninth-wonder.html I checked out the Seven Mile Bridge in depth a couple of years ago with lots of pictures.
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We were fortunate (?) enough to run the Seven Mile Bridge Run last April, in 2010.
It's a completely different experience than driving over the bridge, to do it all on foot. The bridge has many nuances that you just don't experience on a motorcycle or in a car.
Something every person should do, at least once in their lifetime.
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