Bruce Herndon's (bruceherndon) Blog

A few days ago, I was driving East on Overseas Highway (U.S. 1) to look at a house on Big Pine Key.  Along the way, I noticed a guy on a small bicycle on the road shoulder to my right who was apparently pedaling along backwards!  I thought, "what's with that"??!!Well, while on Big Pine, I dropped...

Terri and I just returned last evening from a Holiday trip to Virginia, and it sure is nice to be back.  Two weeks of nearly no online service was pretty frustrating, but we had a good time driving up and back, and visiting family and friends while there.  One of the first things I did upon arriv...

 While listening to news this morning on the Keys most popular radio station, 104.1 U.S. 1 Radio, I heard something amazing to me.  The Key West Police Chief was being interviewed about Key West and the upcoming holidays.  He commented what a big time Christmas is in the City of Key West.  Then h...

2008 has been named the "International Year of the Coral Reef", and local Reef conservationists are hoping that this will focus additional attention and funding to deal with the plight of the Florida Keys Reef Tract.  Our Reef has actually suffered a 37 percent coral cover loss over the past 11 y...

Key West, Florida, not unlike many other places, has many things unique to it.  One such thing here is the Key West Chickens.  Thought to have been aboard ships wrecked on the Coral Reef centuries ago, the Bantam chickens populate Downtown Key West and "New Town".  Just about anywhere you look, y...

Well, Terri and I spent a delightful afternoon in Key West yesterday, showing the city to a friend visiting from Virginia.  We went into the high-end art galleries, Fast-Buck Freddie"s Department Store, visited local attractions, and capped the day off with a visit to the Hemingway House.  This w...

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Everbody!!We just returned from a leisurely drive around Big Pine Key, where we got good sightings of several of the famed Key Deer for our visiting friend from Virginia.  I may have mentioned this before, but Big Pine Key (I sometimes call it "Large Conifer") is the only ...

"VENTURE OUT"Located just a half mile down the street from our home on Cudjoe Key, 23 miles east of the "Southernmost Point" in the Continental U.S., is a very nice RV resort known as "Venture Out".  The park has 659 RV lots, most measuring 30 feet by 70 feet.  There is a nice system of deep-wate...

Wow, what a day of excitement!!  This past Sunday was the big finale of the week-long annual Key West Power Boat Races events.  There were thousands of people in attendance at the Key West Naval Air Station "Mole" (the dock used by cruise ships visiting Key West).  All eyes were on the million do...

Well, the Grady White has been in the water, tied up to the dock, for about a month now, and it's time to get her out and back on the trailer.  I like to take the boat out of the water every now and then to keep the bottom of the hull from getting encrusted with barnacles and other marine crud.  ...