Florida Keys Blog
The Keys Blog is a short read about The Florida Keys happenings.
It alerts you to any new Web pages added to N The Florida Keys, always telling new fishing, diving and boating adventures.
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It's pretty cool, I think you'll enjoy it. Jul 27, 2010, Links to Friends of N The Florida KeysThe following are our Links to Friends who are located all over the World. Each of our Links to Partners is a site that has been approved and qualified to offer genuine information to our readers. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Links to Friends of N The Florida Keys" Jul 7, 2010, The Adolphus Busch, you can snorkel or dive this Florida Keys WreckThe sinking of the Adolphus Busch in the Florida Keys quickly became a great wreck dive Jul 5, 2010, Real Gulf Oil Spill FootageThis is a video of the real Gulf Oil Spill. Its airiel footage of our beautiful Gulf. Yes it's more than disturbing but I thought I owed it to the creatures to watch the video and share it! To all of you I'm sorry it will upset you, My prayer is for a miracle, but I've asked for the animals to go quickly and not to suffer for man's mistakes and greed. Please share it and post it everywhere. People have to know the seriousness of this! And have you noticed that as of last Monday the Media no longer refer to it as the Gulf Oil Spill. A ruling came from the White House (now who lives there?) that said "Media personnel were to refer to the Gulf Oil Spill as the Gulf Oil Disaster or the BP Oil Disaster. Just who do they think they are influencing???
Jul 1, 2010, Events Happening in the Florida Keys in JulyWell here we are in July already and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico still spews out at an unmeasurable amount. Too much focus on politics and not enough on Stopping the leak and cleaning up the oil at sea before it hits the marshes, mangroves and beaches. We still have no oil here in the Florida Keys. Key West July 3, Conch Republic Ladies’ Dolphin Tournament. Call 305-304-7674 Key Largo July 4, Fireworks Show on Blackwater Sound. Click Here Islamorada July 4, Fireworks and Family Fun at Founders Park. Click Here Lower Keys July 4, Celebrate Fourth of July Fireworks. Call 305-766-8467 or Click Here Marathon July 4, Marathon Beach Party & Fireworks Show. Call 305-743-5417 or Click Here Marathon July 10, Marathon Dolphin Scramble. Call 305-289-0199 or Click Here Looe Key Reef July 10, 26th Annual Underwater Music Festival. Call 305-872-2411 or Click Here Marathon July 10-11, 3rd Annual Florida Keys Open Spearfishing Tournament. Call 305-743-2444 or Click Here Lower Keys July 11, 3rd Annual Under the Waterfalls Art & Shrimp Fest. Call 305-872-1828 or Click Here Islamorada July 13-15, Florida Keys Outfitters IGFA Inshore World Championship. Call 305-664-5423 Key West July 15-18, Mel Fisher Days. Call 305-296-6534 or Click Here Islamorada July 16-17, ConchLife Scramble On-the-Water Golf Tournament. Call 305-522-1590 or Click Here Key West July 20-25, Hemingway Days. Call 305-296-2388or Click Here Key West July 21-23, Del Brown Permit Tournament. Call 305-942-0428 Key West July 21-24, Drambuie Key West Marlin Tournament. Call 305-292-2710 or Click Here Islamorada July 25-26, Islamorada Fishing Club RedGhost Stalk. Call 305-664-3864 or Click Here Marathon July 28-29, 5th Annual Lobster Rodeo. Call 305-743-7255 or Click Here Marathon July 28, Marathon Lobster/Spearfish Challenge. Call 305-289-0199 or Click Here Marathon, July 30-31, 2nd Annual Mity Mite Tournament. Call 305-743-2444 or Click Here Jun 8, 2010, A movie theater is a good place to be on a rainy day in the Florida KeysIf you're looking for a movie or stage play, you'll need to go to a Theater in the Florida Keys Jun 8, 2010, Eating at any Florida Keys restaurants guarantees you great tastesIt seems the Florida Keys Restaurants have an atmosphere that adds to your eating pleasure Jun 6, 2010, Let a Florida Keys flats and backcountry guide put you on a Big Tarpon!This Florida Keys flats and backcountry guide list is no doubt some of the worlds best fishermen Jun 6, 2010, Here's the offshore deep sea fishing charter list for the Florida KeysA Florida Keys offshore deep sea fishing charter can land you a monster fish! Jun 5, 2010, Events in the Florida Keys For June, Still No OilIt's June and the humidity and thunderstorms have arrives on schedule. I'm happy to report that no oil has made it to the Floria Keys waters, mangroves or coral reefs. The Loop Current just may keep it away from us altogether. Islamorada June 4-6, Islamorada Dolphin Tournament. Call 305-852-2102 Lower Keys June 4-6, Cudjoe Gardens Dolphin Tournament. Call 305-744-3348 or Click here. Key Largo June 5-10, Key Largo Reef Fest. Call 800-822-1088 or Click here. Lower Keys June 6, Pet Patio Party @ Boondocks on Ramrod Key. Call 305-872-4094 or Click here. Islamorada June 7-11, Don Hawley Invitational Tarpon Tournament. Call 305-664-2444 Key West June 9-13, Pridefest Key West 2010: Diversity In Paradise. Call 800-535-7797 or Click here. Key West June 10-13, First Annual Key West Bacchanalia. Call 305-766-3356 or Click here. Key Largo June 11-12, 17th Annual Original Ladies Dolphin Tournament. Call 305-360-7727 or Click here. Big Pine & Lower Keys June 11-13, Big Pine & Lower Keys Dolphin Tournament. Call 305-872-2411 or Click here. Key West June 12, The Original FKCC Swim Around Key West. Call 305-809-3562 or Click here. Islamorada June 18-19, 6th Annual Island Grill Charity Dolphin Tournament & Fun Day. Call 305-664-8400 or Click here. Marathon June 19, Father’s Day Dolphin Derby. Call 305-289-0199 or Click here. Islamorada June 21-25, Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament. Call 305-664-2444 Key West June 21-Aug. 13, Summer Coral Camp. Call 305-294-3100 or Click here. Key West June 25-27, Key West Gator Club Dolphin Derby. Call 305-304-7674 Marathon June 25-27, 10th Annual Burdines Waterfront Dolphin & Blackfin TunaFun Fishing Tournament. Call 305-743-5317. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Events in the Florida Keys For June, Still No Oil" May 29, 2010, Microbes That Gobble Oil SpillsThe link at the bottom of this post will take you to a very interesting video about Microbes that eat oil spills. Check it out and see if you don't come to the same conclusion that I did which is why isn't this being used on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig spill? May 24, 2010, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Florida KeysThis is from May 17,2010 broadcast on NBC about the Oil Spill that could impact Florida and the Florida Keys. Just click on the link below and come to your own conclusion. May 21, 2010, Fish Closures Because of Deepwater Horizon Rig Oil SpillThe Deepwater Horizon Rig Oil Spill has not reached the Florida Keys as of yet and may go around us. But there are areas in the Gulf affected by the oil. There have been areas closed to fishing both for commercial interests and recreational fishermen. The link below gives you the chart and Lat. Lon's for these areas. You can go there daily and get an update as the NMFS is changing the closure area almost daily. On a lighter note, the fishing in the Florida Keys hasn't been this good since the 90's. There were 5 Blue Marlin hookups that I know of personally today. The Dolphin are everywhere and so are the Blackfin Tuna, Wahoo and Blue Marlin. Something about this really cold winter has pushed all these fish here and the fishing is hot. My muscles are aching from reeling in fish all day. May 19, 2010, Stone Crab Claws are a Florida keys DelicacyStone Crab from the Florida Keys tastes very sweet, it's like no other Crab Meat Permalink -- click for full blog post "Stone Crab Claws are a Florida keys Delicacy" May 19, 2010, We dive thru a solid wall of Moon Jellyfish on a Florida Keys ReefWe had to dive thru 1000's of moon jellyfish to get to the lobster May 17, 2010, Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform DisasterWhat on earth is wrong with this picture. The Deepwater Horizon Rig was a state of the art oil rig. It had been successful at drilling the deepest oil well yet. They were patting themselves on the back all the while ignoring faulty equipment. This isn't over, have you seen the pictures of all that toxic oil floating on the vast live piece of ocean called the Gulf of Mexico? Does anyone realize how much marine life and wetland habitat will be wiped out by this arrogant selfish company BP and our Government policies allowing them to drill OUR oil??? The thing that really pisses me off with all this is that our Government allows this foreign company to drill our oil and sell it on the International Market all the while telling us we need to build wind mills and solar panels and cut back on our consumption of energy. And this is one of the largest oil finds ever! Why are we letting BP ship our oil out to the open market all the while we are paying for expensive Arab oil when we can certainly put a dent in the oil supply problem for this country from the oil that's in the Gulf of Mexico, USA? Something has to change! I can't be the only one that's really mad over this realization. Something has to be done to change these policies and keep our oil here, not let the almighty dollar rule.
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