It's Friday and I started out to dive again today but I got an email invitation to tour the back side of the island with my computer club pal and his family. Here is a scene from the east side viewed from a cliff top open air restaurant named 'Coconuts'.
You'll notice that they've lost a little real estate. The smoke on the horizon might be trash burning at the dump. Julietta will enjoy seeing the kites over the distant beach. The wind here is right off the sea. The kiters aren't the only ones to enjoy the breeze. Next is a picture of a 'Magnificent Frigate' soaring overhear. (How did they ever come to name it that?)
On the way out of town we saw this troop of Mayan dancers returning from a performance.
As I was leaving to dive this morning I saw this ant walking along and couldn't figure out what it was carrying. Still no idea what use it had but looks like me carrying a telephone pole.
A couple pages back I was teasing Rosalba about the electrical transformers leaking PCB's and attributed the oil stain in the street to a leaking car. This next scene isn't so innocent.
With all the cats on this island it's not too surprising that I have yet to see a rat. . . . . .until earlier this week. "the only good rat is a . . . . . "
While getting my Scuba regulator serviced I was attracted to some of Javier's tools. Isn't this 17mm hand wrench lovely.
There is tree that grows in the Florida Keys called Legnumvide (sp). It's waterproof resin made it a one-time sought after material to use as ship's propeller shaft bushings. Great income source for the 'Conchs' during WWII. Because of it's weather resistance and also because it carves well it was popular for making Carousel horses. A friend of mine in the Keys always wanted a merry-go-round horse as a home decoration but they are very sought after and expensive as hell. On my way home the other evening I spotted this black beauty at a neighbors gate. (Suffer Joanie)
While we are thinking of carnival rides I noticed a Carnival has come over on the ferry but not set up yet. Here is the Tilt-A-Whirl.
Since finding out about three wheeled motorcycles through my diesel pump repair pal I've thought about different configurations and like the idea of making a passenger compartment out of a Tilt-A-Whuirl car. Kind of like this:
I got in the water again yesterday and I was going to close with a few more U/W pix from the video but there appear to be enough pictures for a page of their own.
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