Moving Again.

Yester day was moving day. The whole reason for coming to the Keys was to get here! Bahia Honda is one of those rare places where the natural and man-made come together to create nearly perfect. The beach here is consistently listed in the top ten for the world.
And as far as the place itself- "location,location,location!" as Betty and Marj would acknowlege always makes great sense. Bahia Honda is close to both Marathon and Big Pine Key for essential shopping. Thirty-six miles to Key West for 'culture'. Right here for everything else.

When Henry Flagler built the Overseas Railroad the Moser channel here was the toughest engineering challenge. The depth of water and strong currents forced him to build a truss bridge on very substantial pilings. After the Hurricane of 1935 destroyed the rail line, the US government decided to build the highway over the TOP of the trusses. Needless to say, the result was unique and a terror to drive over.
In 1967, Tommy Chumley and I came down here in his '66 Corvair Monza convertible diving for a week. The Bahia Honda Bridge was a series of parabolic dips that launched that light-weight car off the ground until we got it under control. Tommy was doing slightly more than the 45 miles an hour limit!
We slept on the beach at Sugarloaf Key and dove and snorkeled. Seventeen was a great age to be in 1967 with a surfboard sticking out of the back of a convertible!