Nancy Forrester celebrated her 70th birthday on July 29 and the City of Key West proclaimed the day "Nancy Forrester Day," in honor of her many years of work planting and caring for the extraordinary tropical garden and rainforest on her one-acre property in Old Town.
Posted - Saturday, August 02, 2008 07:42 PM EDT
April Polston-Barnes gets ready to toss a tennis ball to her chocolate lab, Tripp. The two often play at Bayview Park, which is undergoing renovations.
Bayview Park has seen better days, Key West residents say. But despite a financially restrictive budget year, the city is planning renovations to bathrooms and a new bandstand, along with a list of other improvements at the Truman Avenue park.
Posted - Sunday, July 27, 2008 07:31 PM EDT
“Who do we have here?” asks John Baltzell, captain of the 31-foot catamaran Patty C, as we approach two young dolphins rubbing bellies and spy-hopping. Baltzell has been studying the local dolphin ecology for six years while driving the Patty C, an inspected vessel out of the historic Key West seaport that takes passengers out to explore their habitat then snorkel the patch reefs in the Key West National Wildlife Refuge.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 03:39 PM EDT
Butterflies that frequent the garden require specific plants to eat and mate on.
One of Key West’s oldest attractions is crawling back from the brink of extinction. The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden welcomes visitors where once there were none and, before that, throngs.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 03:29 PM EDT
Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas is full of history, but it's also a great spot to snorkel. A National Park Service map provides details about snorkeling hotspots, including the former coaling docks.
Four hours is hardly enough time to visit the tiny chunk of the Dry Tortugas that holds Fort Jefferson.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 02:27 PM EDT
Visitors stroll outside the Harry S Truman Little White House Museum in Key West.
It’s the place where Harry S. Truman did all of his presidential work during the winter months, where Dwight D. Eisenhower created the U.S. Department of Defense and where John F. Kennedy may have made a decision that averted World War III.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 02:26 PM EDT
The Cutter Mohawk is a floating museum moored at the Truman Waterfront in Key West.
America’s Greatest Generation, the men and women who served in our armed forces during World War II, are no better represented than by those who served as crew aboard a little steel ship named Mohawk — now berthed in Key West and open to the public.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:59 PM EDT
Nearly 10 years and $6 million in the making, the Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center is aimed at educating people about the Keys’ unique ecosystem above and beneath the sea.
Posted - Monday, May 26, 2008 11:33 PM EDT
Nancy Forrester with one of her feathered friends.
A brilliantly colored cockatoo cried out somewhere in the jungly tangle of Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden and temporarily shattered the quiet of a late-September morning.
Posted - Monday, May 26, 2008 11:32 PM EDT
The Civil War is re-enacted each year at Fort Zach.
There’s nothing quite like it in the Keys. Tropical breezes sough through tall pines and emerald waters lap gently up on a glistening white sand beach. Locals bring picnic baskets and hammocks and children laugh and splash in the surf.
Posted - Monday, May 26, 2008 11:30 PM EDT
