A Week in Key West

After being tethered to the boat for 10 days, we have now spent a week in Key West regrouping and making repairs to the boat and are now officially on island time…make a repair, go to Mallory Square to watch street entertainers and the famous sunset…make a repair, have dinner at Salute’s and attend a reggae concert at Higg’s Beach…make a repair, head to Hog’s Breath Bar for fish & chips, beer and a live band…make a repair, tour the Shipwreck Museum and have another beer…make a repair, shop Duvall St. and people watch…make a repair, take a nap.  This is living!

Sunset at Mallory Square

Key West Museum of Art & History

 

Shipwreck Treasures Museum

 

Welcome to Mallory Square

  

Conch Harbor provided us with most everything we needed including great entertainment and dining, but nothing is cheap in Key West.  The nearest grocery store is miles away, over a bridge, so you must take a taxi to grocery shop.  As we opted to dine out instead of hailing a $25 roundtrip cab to the grocery store, we found this to be a nice vacation spot, but it did not fit well in our cruiser’s budget.  We had what we were told to be the best fish sandwich around…$13.00 for a Mahi Mahi sandwich with mayo, lettuce and Cuban bread.  No fries, no chips. Other than the price, nothing was outstanding about the sandwich. We did have a Cuban Pulled Pork sandwich at the Cuban Queen Coffee Shop that was outstanding and leftovers made a great frittata for breakfast the next morning. At $5.95, we should have stuck with that.  But, then again, we were in beautiful Key West.

Let us not forget we were only 90 miles from Cuba standing in a long line to have our picture taken next to the famous Southernmost Point buoy marker.

While we waited our turn, we were serenaded with Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" by a talented acoustic guitar player who turned to Jim and said, “Have you heard of Don Quixote?”  How ironic was that?  Our sailboat is the Dulcinea, so named after Don Quixote’s imaginary love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMA-_ElvKsk