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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