Here is Jay stealing a sip of my Americano at The Conch House where we had breakfast in Key Largo Saturday morning.  This is where Rhonwyn and Steve always breakfast when they go down there.  The coffee was OK but not great.  Jay had macadamia nut pancakes and thought they were really good.  We spent the night in Homestead at an Econolodge motel.  then came on down to Key Largo where Jay fished in the gulf AND in the Atlantic.  The highway is so narrow going south  from Key Largo that Jay said he could have fished both at the same time, the gulf on the forward cast and the Atlantic on the back cast.  He probably would have hooked someone in a car going by though so it's good that he didn't try.

 We stopped again at the Wide World of Sports just so we could look at Hemingway's boat, The Pilar.  Here Jay's sitting in the EXACT SAME SEAT that Hemingway sat in to catch some of those big fish he's always posing in pictures with.  Hemingway didn't actually own this boat, he just fished in it and liked it so well that he had one built just like it.  On  our way back to Miami from Key Largo we took a side highway, Card Sound Road, so we could eat lunch at Alabama Jack's.  They have really good Conch fritters and Conch Chowder there and there's a deck built right over a canal shadowed on the other side by densely growing Mangroves.  So we had lunch  and sat there throwing crumbs over the railing to the needle fish and some other kinds too.  We also lucked out and saw a manatee swimming by.  I said it was the size of a man but Jay thought it was bigger.

 Today, we met Bryan and Karen for brunch in South Beach.  We were going to go to a Starbucks by the ocean for our after brunch coffee but it started pouring down rain so we went back to The Lincoln Road Mall, which is what they are standing on above, and sat in a Starbucks there.  Karen is on the left above and that's Rhonwyn with the Madeline hat on.Karen is Rhonwyn & Steve's sort-of adoptive daughter.