Hurricane Ike on Tuesday

Here's a shot of the waves crashing on Tuesday, the day Hurricane Ike hit Key West.  This is near West Martello, where they have the Garden Club, next to White Street Pier.  Not a serious hurricane for us but still exciting.  Fox News was here, reporting on nothing as usual.

Hurricane Ike in Key West

Monday before Hurricane Ike hit Key West, it's a kite boarding party on Smathers Beach.  The wind was perfect for these guys, and White Street Pier provided the perfect photo-taking platform for their jumps.  You can see that we actually have waves here in this picture.  Usually we don't because the coral reef breaks them up before they hit shore.  

Here's a video of a kite boarder doing a jump right in front of us while we stood on White Street Pier.

Hurricane Gustav

Gustav was a bust! It was windy and it rained for about 24 hours straight but that was it. Thank goodness we didn't get it but it's hard not to just think about all the work done to prepare. We didn't even take our boat out of the water this time because the "cone" wasn't going to hit us. Here's what the radar looked like:


The only thing was, the wind was so strong our boat pulled the cleat out of the concrete on our dock so when we woke up the tail end was across the canal.