Offshore Keys paddling:
ONEWAY parked under the Sand Key lighthouse.
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Surfski visit to a historic Florida Keys lighthouse where
the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico meet.
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ONEWAY at what is left of Sand Key eight miles SW of Key West, summer 2020.
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ONEWAY is my resurrected Shearwater surfski.
Sand Key lighthouse was the second of the six Florida Keys offshore reef lights built during the second half of the 19th century. This skeletal iron tower was erected on what was once a sizable island on actual dry ground. It replaced a previous brick structure which was entirely swept away during a fierce hurricane in 1846. Later hurricanes would completely wash away all of the island above water as early as 1856!
The resilient replacement lighthouse still stands, but Sand Key is now just a small sporadically roving sandy shoal which appears and disappears with the seasons.
Lower Keys photography, adventure
and fitness paddling!
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This is the only one of the offshore Keys lighthouses where I was able to stand underneath on dry ground. My timing was fortunate that I had just enough land to pull my surfski onto.
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Full story:
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Bless UP!
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