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Too Windy

Full sun, as usual, and glorious whiteblue sky, and light green water.  But the woman at Fury recommends, “especially because you’ll be here awhile,” that I wait for a less windy day for snorkeling. 

The reefs nearby aren’t any good.  It’s one hour to get to a good one, one hour snorkeling, one hour back to the harbor. 

UD was all packed:  swimsuit, shirt to protect her back, towel, sun cream, book (Key West Tales), writing tablet.   Money.  Allergy pills.  Hat.

“I wouldn’t recommend going out on the water at all today,” said the woman at Fury.  “If you take a glass bottom boat, you’ll definitely get seasick.  Leaning down to look, then sitting up again… Seasickness guaranteed.”

Two massive cruise ships spilled passengers onto the harbor walk. 

“Everybody here?  Anybody been to Key West before?”  A tour guide addressed twenty Asians from Celebrity X Cruises.  “Well, if you’ve been here, you know it’s not Key West.  It’s Key Weird.”

But it wasn’t weird here, country clubby Sunset Harbor, with standard luxury hotels and upscale shops, and even a gated community.

UD‘s always astonished at how illiterate the advertising copy meant to appeal to pretentious people can be.  Note that the short paragraph describing the Truman Annex bursts with blunders. 

Pedestrians are allowed — only between certain hours, to be sure — to walk Truman’s gated ground.

Margaret Soltan, February 20, 2009 10:42AM
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One Response to “Too Windy”

  1. veblen Says:

    If we take the broader definition of pedestrian as one who travels by foot, then one could conclude that pedestrians must skip, run, or ambulate by means other than by a steady gate?

    Also, this reminds me of when I was a child. I thought that the don’t walk signs at intersection meant that you were supposed to run across them.

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