Southern Style in the basin of Marlin Bay Marina (viewed from the watch tower)
View from the cockpit of Southern Style in our slip in Marlin Bay.
Pool with club house in back. Covered bar to left.
Pool from the second floor of the club house (Southern Style is right in the middle of the far screen)
Balcony of the club house
Our friend Brad Hanks also arrived on Wednesday evening to visit for several days. He and Keith will be watching some basketball this weekend along with enjoying some vacation time for Brad. We all went to Sunset Grill for dinner the night Brad got in. We had a table right on the water.
Sunset Wednesday night
The dock at Sunset Grill was lighted with green lights
Thursday morning we spent some time at the community park tennis courts so we would not feel so guilty going to Burdines for lunch. It is likely our last Burdine's for this winter. Of course we had to have a fried Key Lime Pie for desert. This twist on standard Key Lime Pie is pretty tasty.
Fried Key Lime Pie
Although the exact origins of Key Lime pie is not definitively known, the first formal mention of the recipe is from William Curry. Curry was a ship salvager in Key West in the early 1900's. Curry was Key West's first millionaire and his cook, "Aunt Sally" made the pie for him. In all likelihood, she adapted the recipe from the lime pie that local sponge fishermen made in the region at the time. Because the sponge fishermen spent many days at a time out to sea, they would have had ingredients such as limes, canned milk, and eggs all used for the lime pie. They also would not have had an oven and the original recipe did not call for cooking the pie.
We went back to Faro Blanco Marina on Thursday afternoon to see the racing boats that had come in for a poker run rendezvous. We were told there were a large number of them coming into the marina for the weekend. Boy were they right. They had boats rafted several deep in some places to fit them all in. I wish we had known what time of day they arrived, as that might have been fun to see. Instead we walked the docks to look at these amazing boats.
These two boats were in the slip that Southern Style was in from January until last Wednesday
They had some boats rafted several deep along the face docks
This one had 6 engines across the back of it
This one had a tuna tower as well as engines that certainly suggest it is a "go fast boat".
Most of the boats had come in from the water, but a few came by trailer too. They even had a big fuel truck that was brought in to refuel some of them. Just crazy the horse power on these boats.
Boat engines everywhere
This truck pulls one of the boat by trailer
Friday the guys spent a good portion of the day in Key West while I did some laundry and errands. When they got back we all relaxed and had dinner before the basketball games started that they wanted to see.
Pengi ready to cheer for the Tar Heels (He would wear the hat but then he couldn't see the game).
Keith watching the sunset Friday evening
Saturday we played tennis again in the morning and then took some of the fresh yellow tail snapper from Keith's fishing trip the other week to Lazy Days for them to prepare. We had it 3 different ways and as usual it was great.
Our yellow tail snapper Lazy Days
We had a friend come looking for a hand-out.
Keith and Brad in Paradise
That afternoon we chilled by the pool for a bit and at the sea wall watching the waves roll in.
Selfie at the pool
Keith and Brad discussing basketball waiting for sunset
Another gorgeous sunset
The weather looks good for a departure Monday the 25th to start heading back north. My next post may be from parts north of the keys.
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