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The Museums of Key West:

Here's a partial list of museums and other points of interest located in or around Key West. Click on the links to go to each one:

Audubon House & Gardens 

Mel Fisher Maritime Museum

Flagler Station Historeum

Fort Zachary Taylor State Historic Site 

Hemingway House & Museum

Key West Aquarium

Key West Lighthouse Museum

Key West Shipwreck Historeum

Mallory Square Marketplace

Schooner Western Union

Harry S Truman Museum

Marathon

Dolphin Research Center

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 

Museum of Crane Point

Sombrero Reef Light Tower  

Indian Key

Indian Key   (Accessible only by boat).

Lignumvitae Key

Lignumvitae Key Gardens

Islamorada

Theater of the Sea

 NOTE:  There are many more attractions all around the area, but these are some of the popular ones.

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Return to Key Largo, Florida

After getting to our motel in Key Largo, us guys jest natcheraPitcher of all us guys that went on vacation, plus Lil Benny who got bought along the waylly had to pose fer a pitcher showing all of us in front of where the boats park, right next to the back door of our motel room!

Pictured, from left to right:  Dexter, Sniffy, Ty, Lil Benny, Scruffy, Sparky and Hiram (The Old Feller).

While the old folks was out eating dinner at some world famous restaurant across the street from the motel, we went out exploring, and we found out how those boats get their gas or Diesel fuel.  A feller in a big truck with a tank on the back pulled up in the parking lot behind the motel and pulled a reel long hose across the back grass lawn, and put the gas pump nozzle into a special hole in the side of the boat.  Then he pulled the handle on that nozzle and about a long time later it shut off and the boat gas tank was full.

The boat guy must know the gas truck guy, cuz he didn't have to give him no charge card or dollar bills, they jest said good bye, and the truck guy rolled up his hose and drove off.

The Coral Castlesign in front of Coral Castle

The next morning, May 7, 2003, we headed for the Coral Castle, located in the south end of Miami.  Some old geezer carved all sorts of weird things out of coral rocks, including his house, garden wall, outdoor furniture and even a bathtub.  

Coral living room set
Coral living room set
Jim decided the desk and chair were a little too hard
Jim sitting at the desk
Beautifully tended garden within the walls
Main Garden Scene
Cool garden behind rear wall
Garden outside rear wall
This shows Gloria trying to close the 4-ton coral door
Gloria closing garden door 
4-ton door beginning to close
4-ton door starting to close
Coral door almost closed
Coral rock door closing
Gloria finished closing the door
Whew!
Now it's closed

Be sure to check out their website, there are some reel cool videos and lots of other cool stuff.  Tell them Sparky sent you and you'll be able to get in for the same price as everybuddy else!  Click here for more information at the

Coral Castle Website 

The Fruit & Spice Park

We went to this here place, and it was sort of like a zoo fer plants.

Anyhow, this place is about 35 acres, and it was flattened by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, but you would never know it to look at all the new trees, shrubs, bushes and other plants that have grown up since then.

Here in Colorado it would take about a hunnert years to get that much stuff growing like that again, but here in Colorado we never get any hurricanes!

Sign in front of the Spice Park
Sign at the entrance
Gloria checking out bananas growing
Gloria at a banana tree
Gloria checking out breadfruits growing on that tree
Gloria at a Breadfruit Tree
Little banana tree starting to grow in garden
Garden with little banana tree

While the old folks was riding on the train thing, me and Dexter got out and explored around the place.  Seeing all those bananas on the trees made both of us hungry fer bananas, but the ones on the trees were all little and reel green, so then we decided to jest try to find some banana seeds so we ken grow our own when we get home, but we didn't find any.

There was a lot of reely weird fruit that had fallen to the ground, and we decided not to taste any of it on account of what we saw on one of them jungle movies.  There was a lady who ate something that looked jest like that one thing we saw on the ground, and she turned into a giant spider.  In the end, Tarzan had to make her eat another different kind of tree fruit and she turned back into a lady again.

You ken click below to see more information about it: 

Fruit & Spice Park Website 

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IS HERE!
THEY GOT US!!

SCORE CARD
as of May 4, 2003:
Mosquitoes, 15 bites
Old folks, 11 mosquitoes

As of May 5, 2003,
Mosquitoes, 17 bites
Old folks, 15 mosquitoes

As of May 6, 2003,
Mosquitoes, 17 bites
Old folks, 18 mosquitoes
We're Ahead!

Sparky Gets Sick

Sparky recovering from getting sick after eating too many pieces of jelly toast and drinking too much coffee.

This sad pitcher shows me when I got sick after I got bit by a Florida Cootie, and I was still recovering from that.  Somebuddy said that I shouldn't have ate no aspirins for a cootie bite, but they fixed me right up after three days.
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