Paradise Lost
I lived in S. Florida and the keys all my life until I moved here 8 years ago. Started fishing Key West and the lower keys 50 years ago,,and it was Paradise! One could go almost anywhere, catch a grouper or a snapper, take it to a local restaurant and they would clean and cook it for your lunch or dinner. Hardly anyone knows what FRESH fish really tastes like. Then the cruise ships came. 2 ships drop off 6,000 sunburned tourists on a 1 mile square island, back then 4 days a week and what had been Paradise turned into another trashy little tourist town just like where the cruise ships stop now in the islands. And now you can buy a cute litle 2 bedrm 1200sq ft house on a canal (ocean access) for about $2 milion. Gone like so many other things but so glad I got to live that life before it disappeared. Ron, Willard and the Lady R. What great memories.
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