This Week on the Island 02/24/2019

‘This Week on the Island’ is written by Doug Bennett and is an update to friends about happenings in Key West last week. Everything is true except for those parts that are lies.

The Weather: It has been beautiful again this week and looks like more to come next week.

Our bananas got so heavy that the banana tree fell down. I have tied the banana stock up on the front porch to get ripe.

These are little Cuban bananas and are supposed to be very sweet.

Teeki at the dog park singing the song of her people.

We rode down to Fort Zack and saw the ships lining up for the Wreakers Race

We have the third largest reef in the world 7 miles off shore.

Before light houses were installed on the reef, lots of ships would hit the reef and sink or get stuck.

The people (wreakers) would race to the ship wreak to help the ship or claim the goods onboard.

The first ship to the wreaked ship became the master of the wreak.

We leave you with the hibiscus at the front door.

 ‘Key West,

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net