Field Notebook: Florida. 1911, 1912
Page 55
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Long Key Fishing Camp. Wednesday, December 27 - 1911, The nights are cool and breezy at this delight- ful place. After breakfast walked along the northern or Florida Bay side of Long Key. Here the elevated coast reef sticks out much further and about two far [illegible] is exposed. Otherwise the shore is iden- tical and the beach is lined with the same animals only that here the coasts are more abundant and the shells less conspicuous. The vegetation is saw and coconuts and the entire Key is less than 1/2 mile wide. The great storms and hurricanes play havoc here. The water gets on considerable of the Key and carries away all the loose wood- or [illegible] and wrenches the tops of the coconuts until the trunks are crooked when the palm dies during the following summer. A part or any other killed last year and are now fair dry out. Florida bay is full of bars over which the water is so shallow that one from the