Good morning, ah winter is so hard—had to have the A/C on last night—in 80’s yesterday….and how are you people in the cold north handling it?
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Comments on Society: This week I picked up some tooth paste….After sorting through stacks and stack of ones to make my teeth whiter which cost totally inflated prices I finally found one (Aim) which actually claimed—who would have thought?–that it helped prevent cavities. What is wrong with this world? We have to have white teeth but we don’t mind if they have hidden cavities. It’s all about looks and not substance. A sad way to enter another year.
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TODAY instead of a town we’re going to the Florida Keys and look at Torches….Big Torch, Middle Torch and Little Torch Keys that is. These Keys were named after the torchwood tree which is a small tropical tree native to the area that burns slowly and so—you got it can be used for torches.
The Keys lie like a loosely strung necklace from the tip of Florida connected by the Overseas Highway, at places nothing but a small causeway with the Gulf on one side and the Atlantic at the other. The highway ends at Key West, though there are more Keys beyond they can only be reached by boat or sea planes. The word Key comes from the Spanish “cay”.
LITTLE TORCH: Is the only one of the 2 Torch Keys connected to the Highway. It is about 120 miles (or so) south of Miami and 28 miles north east of Key West.
Little Torch is known more for a departure site than a destination. It is here that you find Little Torch Key Shore Station to catch a ferry to Little Palm Island. http://www.littlepalmisland.com/luxury-florida-resort-deals.aspx?/_vsrefdom=littlepalmisland-ppc&gclid=CjwKEAiAt4mlBRDXwt_m9ICU4DcSJAAS_X0WusrcUFo83nsX06RsqUOL4KPIYxBIIId2N9uMYlVSVxoCxfbw_wcB Little Palm is about a 15 min (or more) boat ride from the small site where you check in, park your car, shop at the gift shop and catch the ferry. Little Palm is not for everyone. It is the playground of the rich and famous. A beautiful resort with an award winning pool, exclusive individual tropical cottages, and a price that keeps the common people at bay. The food is fantastic (there use to be a Sunday Brunch for those of us who couldn’t afford the overnight and it was a beautiful place to behold–and we were only allowed in a limited area).
Kiki’s Sandbar (formerly Little Torch Sandbar) http://www.kikissandbar.com/
183 Barry Avenue
Little Torch Key, Florida 33042
It’s also listed at MM 28.5 In the Keys there are two addresses and the most common to the local are Mile Markers. This starts at the beginning of the Keys and ends at Key West. “The business center of unincorporated Key Largo is at about MM 100; therefore, about 100 miles northeast of Key West. The Florida DOT tries to maintain small rectangular green with white number mile marker signs every mile on both sides of the highway. ” http://www.keyshistory.org/MileMarkerChart.html
Built on stilts above a Mangrove-fringed shore the restaurant has a great view of the Pine Channel.
The island is also close to the Looe Key National Marine with its incredible coral. http://www.floridakeys.com/lowerkeys/looekey.htm
There was a settlement in the 1930′s at the north end of the island, but this was basically deserted when the highway came through on the former railroad right away after the Labor Day Hurricane (1935) which destroyed the railroad. One of its few claims to fame is that it was a favorite site for fishing for Harry Truman, the present spent considerable time in Key West in what became known as The Little White House. http://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/Today the island is a quiet place where locals live and some tourists visit. It’s shops and businesses limited.
Middle Torch Key lies between Ramrod and Little Torch and is connected to the rest of the keys at MM 28 on US 1 (Overseas Highway). It is mostly residential with homes occupied by long term locals and short term tourist rentals
Big Torch Key is north of Middle Torch Key and is connected to Middle Torch (and eventually the Overseas Hwy) by a causeway, however this biggest of the three keys has no direct contact with HWY 1. It was once the site of an early Keys settlement, but now is basically residential.
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