The highlight of our week in the Lower Florida Keys in 2000 was a seaplane trip to Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas, about 70 miles west of Key West. It's a scheduled flight, so the shooting was challenging, with a couple of seconds for each photo and dirty windows in the way, but we got a few decent frames. The shot above is less than decent, technically, but how can you not like a shipwreck with trees growing out of it?
Shipwreck #2 - surrounded by barely-submerged sandbars and birds jockeying for perches on its mast.
Two shots of a small atoll between Key West and the Dry Tortugas. I like the broccoli-like appearance of the mangrove islets, and the S-shaped swath the current has cut through the shallows in the second photo.
Two frames of the spectacular 150-foot lighthouse on Loggerhead Key, just a couple of miles southwest of Fort Jefferson.
Our pilot was kind enough to do not only the fly-by of Loggerhead Key, but also an extra pass over Garden Key/Fort Jefferson, before touching down on the liquid runway. Even at a couple of thousand feet, we had no words.
A moat! It has a moat! AND a lighthouse. Just behind the black lighthouse tower, the old foundations of the barracks, as well as the more-or-less intact armory, are visible. We'll be stepping onto that beach in the foreground in about three minutes...
... after a smooth splashdown and taxi in front of the fort. Photo by [Maris].
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought." It wasn't that bad, Mom - honest!Next - all over and around and in love with Fort Jefferson...
Beautiful shots and a memorable experience I'm sure. I'd love to do this one day.
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