Walked along two miles of the old seven mile bridge to Pigeon Key today and learnt all about Henry Flagler who funded the East Coast Railway and built Miami and founded Florida light and power and loads of other stuff. Oh and he was an early partner in Standard oil with mr rockerfeller as well.
Apparently he came up with the idea for wind and tidal power in the late 1800s but everyone thought he was bonkers.
He paid people 1.5 dollars a day for a two year contract with transport paid to come live down here and build it. If you wanted to leave you had to pay forty bucks for the transport.
Apparently his third wife pushed him down the stairs too finish him off but it's okay coz her second husband poisoned her with strychnine.
Failed miserably to find out why it was called Pigeon Key completely forgot to ask - we were too busy admiring Buddy the HUGE cat who was completely soft and looked like a small puma.
Currently sat listening to the entertainment that goes with tonights cook out. He's quite good actually so we're rockin along as the sun sets. have discovered new pudding Key Lime ice pops - slice of key lime pie dunked in chocolate and then frozen - very yummy.
Not sure about the "brat" as the lady at the food counter gave me a choice of hotdog or brat so I said one of each just in case. Unfortunately we have no idea which was which but they were both good so that's ok.
8pm and very dark here now so off to tent to download some piccies as Martyn has filled a card!
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