Monday Feb. 3 – Sunday Feb. 9

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Monday we took a drive to Islamorada (a Key north of us) to visit Robbies. Robbies is a must see here in the Keys. It consists of an open air market (selling art, jewelry, clothing, and even hermit crabs), charter boat rentals, and a restaurant. But the reason we went there was to feed the tarpon fish. There are 50 to 100 tarpons that hang out around the docks waiting to be fed. If you hang baitfish over the water they jump out of the water and eat right from your hand. Kind of scary but we had to try. What they forgot to tell us was that pelicans hang out there too and they are sneaky. Twice while trying to feed the tarpons the pelicans were hiding under the docks and grabbed the baitfish from our hands.

 

 

 The bigger fish are Tarpons and the smaller are Jacks.

 

While on Islamorada we stopped at the World Wide Sportsman (Bass Pro Shop). Did a little shopping and boarded a 28 foot wooden boat, which is a sister ship to the one Earnest Hemmingway owned.

 

 Randy, Mike, & Ed checking out some new boats for fishing.

 

Randy, Mike, and Ed got to go fishing 3 times during the week. The first 2 times they did not have very good luck, but threes a charm so now there will be fresh fish to eat.

 

 Sand Shark

Puffer fish (had to throw back but it puffed to the size of a

soccer ball before they got it back in the water).

 

 

 Nassau Grouper (had to throw back).

 

 Hog Fish