Images from the Gulf of Mexico Survey Week One. 
Key West to Bahia Honda
To
begin I drove to the end of the road. The southern most point
in the continental U.S. and the end of highway 1 – Key West,
Florida. This is the starting point of my Gulf of Mexico Survey only
90 miles from Havana, Cuba and 385 miles from Cancun, Mexico. I’ll
take three months to drive the 3700 miles around the Gulf to Cancun.
The following are photos from my travels. The places I visit and the artwork
that I create.
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This is the old lighthouse on Key West. Highest point on the island? Pretty much. Built in 1847 and electrified in 1927. Learn more here. See the drawing by clicking the link below.
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A beautiful Key West sunset. It happens almost every evening. Each one though, is unique.
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I toyed with the idea of doing the whole survey from my yacht, but once I got to Key West, I found my bottom needed caulking. So I drove my Jeep instead.
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On
the left is a view from the Lighthouse and the right is a beautiful 19th
century home with several different national flags.
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A fishing camp on Big Pine Key near No Name Key. This is a refuge area for the endangered Key Deer.
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Bahia
Honda is a
Florida State Park with a great campground.The drawing looks west and
includes the original railroad bridge as well as the new bridge. The
original bridge was Henry
Flagler's own, which he continued south from
Palm Beach and finally completed in 1912.
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