At anchor in Boot key Harbor, Marathon

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We are in Marathon, Florida, after a wonderful cruise to the Keys via Everglade City. What an outpost that little town, tucked into the Everglades, is...We docked the boat at the Rod and Gun Club which is up a river, through mangroves 8 miles off the Gulf Coast. The Rod and Gun Club is a large, white clapboard building with yellow and white stripped awnings and a huge wrap-around screened porch overlooking the dock and river. Its reminiscent of a northern Wisconsin lodge (without the cheese curds).
There are game fish mounted on the walls and dark, pecky cypress panelling throughout.The bar has the feel of an old club, and it overlooks an ancient looking swimming pool.In the lobby are articles, some of them yellowed with age, about the 5 US presidents who have visited the club...also many articles about the drug smugglers who hide out in the mangrove islands surronding the little town...this only adds to the mystique of the place. Alligator alley, the main road through the "glades" and across the state of Florida is nearby, and it's estimated that one in six cars traversing the state via this road is carrying drugs!!!
The town is charming ,in an old Florida kind of way. There is a town square with several interesting historic buildings around the perimeter. Smack dab in the middle of that square is a huge cell tower, once again giving credence to the fact that Florida is such a dicotomy between beauty and quirkiness.
We're currently anchored in the beautiful Keys, and will explore this area for several days before moving toward Miami. In the distance we see the flashing lights of three huge radio towers...most locals don't even know this, but we do...these are the towers of "radio Marti"...the radio free Cuba station that beams to that island 24/7...the installation is surronded by fencing and no tresspassing signs everywhere...we went past it in our dinghy yesterday....
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Adios and once again...GO BEARS