Only One of Hundreds

Welcome to a Florida Key.... beautiful downtown Cedar Key, Florida. In back of the camera is a rather modest port & marina. Cedar Key is the second port to open in the state. It is located just 1/4 mile off the Gulf Shore, probably 75 miles North of the Tampa Bay area. Cedar Key is a very quiet island town of 750 full time residents and as you can probably guess, the "downtown" businesses are either restaurants or souvenir shops. Other than tourism on a small scale, the town's main business is the harvesting of various shell fish, Stone Crab Claws (yum), Little Neck Clams (double yum) and Oysters (triple yum). A pound of Claws will cost you $6.00. 100 Clams $15.00 - do the math, that's 15 cents a Clam. I didn't get to sample the Oysters... YET.

The 750 full time residents I mention does not include the pelicans and various other shore birds that seem to be thriving everywhere. I would guess the locals call this "Pelican Pier".

The tide is out and everything, everything on the bottom is absolutely covered in Oysters.

The day we were there we had mostly sunny skies, a 15mph wind off the Gulf, and 58 degree temperature. It was very cool making it a pleasant to walk around. Hey! We're in Florida, on the coast, in a tourist town. So what do you do? Well, if you're Becky... even though you have goose bumps, you eat Ice Cream!