Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – Key Largo

Photo by Lee Smith

When you drive a few miles out to sea and find a structure like a lighthouse – I always wonder how the heck they built that thing. It is unmanned, but still functions being the oldest existing screw-pile lighthouse still in service in the United States  – located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida

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Carysfort Reef Light – 0830
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Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – 0832

A Lone Mangrove – Key Largo, FL

Photo by Lee Smith

I walked in the shallows around a mangrove covered island off Key largo, Florida and found this lone Mangrove growing away from the island. (Photo taken in 2012)

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Key Largo Mangrove Tree – 7D-2012-_0852
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Key Largo Mangrove Tree – 7D-2012-_0838

 

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Key Largo Mangrove Tree – 0851
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Key Largo Mangrove Island – 0842 – 7D 2012

Ocean View of Fisher Island (2012)

Photo by Lee Smith

I remember when the private island was mostly trees and a sand beach. A place to pull up your boat and eat lunch after a morning of diving or fishing. Now it is the home of the elite with properties selling in the millions…

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Ocean view Fisher Island – 0949

Moon over Port of Miami

Photo by Lee Smith

A long view of the Moon over Port of Miami as seen from the north jetty of Government Cut

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Port of Miami – 0912-full

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