Weather was perfect yesterday for a bike ride around Key West. We started our ride in new town and headed south west to South beach. The throngs of spring breakers that we saw on Smathers beach the other day were absent here. It didn’t look any more crowded then any other nice day in season.
Some street “artists” of some sort had some sort of stands, not really sure what they were selling. A single stand-up paddler was tooling around the pier enjoying the flat calm seas. We see more and more people doing that. The cold inshore water kept most people on the beach but a couple did venture out into the water.
Pier at the Reach Resort
After riding past the Southernmost Point we rode into Bahama village to check out the community pool, which was totally empty. We haven’t gone to it yet but it is free and we wanted to check it out. It seems like a really nice pool.
We rode through the low income housing, projects-looking area at the south west corner of the island. Not the prettiest part of Key West but not dangerous. When we first moved to Key West some locals we talked to talked about the Bahama village area like it was Compton or something. Of course the first thing I did was go walk around the area at night to see if it was scary. In opinion it wasn’t scary. If you are younger and look like you want be looking for drugs, you might have a saggy pants teenager try to sell you something but other then that I doubt anyone would give you any hassles. Probably one of the great things about living in Key West is lack of violent crime. We looked at the outside of some rentals and a couple of the other places that were for sale.
Stand up paddling gaining popularity around Key West
We took a back way into the harbor next to Truman Annex. We stopped and took a couple photos of the coast guard cutter docked there. It’s a huge white boat, apparently there are paid tours of it. We didn’t check to see how much they were.
Coast Guard Cutter, Ingram. Located in the harbor, you have to go through truman annex to see the ship . There are tours of the ship which are not free
The Eco Discovery Center was open and looked deserted. It’s free and it is surrounded by free parking but every time we go past it looks like no one is there. I don’t think very many people know about it. Its got FREE parking, and it’s FREE, just thought I would let people know.
After that it was getting hot, so we rode back through Bahama Village and then on to White street. We hit the Dairy Queen and got vanilla cones dipped in strawberry flavored transfat dip, they were delicious.
