Grouper in Key Largo

Nice encounter at Elbow reef.

Nurse Shark

Around the wreck City of Washington, built in 1877. A steamer-sailer, with 3 masts, she was right next to the US battleship Maine when the Maine exploded in Havana harbor in 1898, the beginning of the Spanish-American War. She sank in 1917 transporting coal and sunk on Elbow Reef.

Small imbricated turtle

Imbricated turtle (Eretmochelus imbricata).

Psycho the Barracuda and friends

The Everglades

One week in the Everglades on the road to Flamingo we encountered our first Alligators.
Irene on the airboat, one of the attraction around the national park. The airboat is not really ecofriendly but part of the florida culture down south. This tour was on the land of the Miccosukee. Check the web site http://www.miccosukee.com/
On the 2 pictures below you can see a Saltwater crocodile, Not an alligators. I didn't know that there were Saltwater Crocs in North America, it was quite interesting, check the differences.


A baby gator on the head of it's mammy.


Florida Cottonmouth (water mocassin) can be aggressive and extremely lethal. Well known in the movies were prisoners try to escape through the swamps.

Miami Obama and Fantasy fest in Key West

Miami Downtown, Obama had a meeting, I went couldn't get in so I waited for him outside with a fairly enthiousastic crowd. Big fun we ended up the night at Shooters with plenty of Obama's supporter, Change is on it's way.


Obama is in the bus, I couldn't take a better picture, Michele left earlier in a car, people were as excited as if it was a pop star.

Few days after visiting Miami we went to the Fantasy fest in Key West, just about a week before Halloween people are working half or fully naked with body paint down the streets of Key West, once home of Hemingway. I had my head painted as well to be in the party mood. Irene didn't.





Here is one of Hemingways protected cats with 6 toes (polydactyl). This is Pablo Picasso. Also to be seen on http://www.hemingwayhome.com/HTML/our_cats.htm