Christopher J. Marcinko

Feral chickens roam around Key West from back in the early days of the city… they are the pigeons of the island – no real fear of people, picking up food from here and there, doing their thing as…

Coral Castle was covered with local lizards… most skittish, some not so much…“Cant see me”……“whatcha looking at?”……“getting some shade”……keeping watch from the…

Came across Coral Castle on the drive South to the Keys. On paper, it’s a limestone/coral structure built by Edward Leedskalnin back in the early 1900s over the course of 28 years or so. Each piece…

A few odds and ends shots from along the Overseas Highway (US-1) on the way down to Key West…A view into Card Sound on the upper end of the Florida Keys……looking north away from Card…

On Labor Day 1935, a Cat5 hurricane crossed over the Florida Keys. Its 200+ mph winds and 20 foot storm surge simply washed away towns and some entire families that were unlucky enough to be in the…

South of Islamorada, I found my future house… the owner doesn’t know it yet, but it is what it is…When I came through in 2007, it was just abandoned. This time around, it looks like somebody…

In the cove between US-1 and the my future house, there were a handful tropical fish swimming in and out of the rocks. Until they noticed i was stalking them at least, at that point they darted away….

On a island known for their deer, a few random birds were enjoying a puddle…An White Ibis behind a Sandpiper (I think)…

Just north of Key West, is Deer Key. Back in the day, before trains, planes and automobiles, apparently deer could swim like fish. Because even 100 miles out from the mainland, they managed to end up…