Key Lime Pie / Key West 1

Please welcome guest bloggers - Uncle Gene and Aunt Nancy!  I've asked them to share some of their wonderful stories and pictures from their recent trip to Key West.  I'm really excited they agreed, and I hope you will be, too!  Gene is a really exciting writer!  : ) 

EATING DOWN HIGHWAY ONE

With Gene Morgan and his favorite traveling companion Nancy

Sunset is celebrated every night in Key West Florida. That tradition was started many years ago by playwright Tennessee Williams and now the whole town does it. There is sadness found in the eyes of many of the revelers on the Mallory Square dock now a days. Out there beyond the pirate ship, beyond Sunset Key, far out on mother ocean lies a monster. It creeps slowly across the gulf destroying all sea life in its path. My advice, get yourself down to the islands and eat all the seafood you can before it all taste like motor oil.

We are starting at the end. This is the town where highway one stops. A few blocks from mile marker 0 is Sunset Pier on the gulf side of the island. This used to be where the shrimp boats dumped their daily catch. The smell is almost gone. It is now an upscale restaurant with expensive food and good entertainment. We always come here early in our visit to the Keys to watch the sunset and most importantly eat some key lime pie.

Until we ate key lime pie at Turtle Kraals we rated Sunset Pier as the best pie in the Keys. Actually the best key lime pie in the world comes from a little café in the town square of Ashville North Carolina and there ain’t even any ocean around. There are many kinds of Key Lime pie, so by the best we mean our favorite kind. Some are sweet and some tart. Some are strong and some are weak. Some are baked with key lime juice, eggs, and sweet condensed milk. Others are like cream pie using cream cheese and are not baked. Both kinds can be good. We like ours not too sweet, not too tart, but with plenty of flavor. These at Sunset Pier rate real high in all areas, with or without accompanying alcoholic drinks.

We started at the end of the highway with desert. Coming up …. You guessed it ……Seafood.