Key West - The Cruise Ships are in town

 

The cruise ships are just ridiculously large - much too crowded for my tastes

Every morning we go out for our exercise: Ann for walking and I for a 30 minute run. Well I found out that I’m not quite ready for that yet. The ribs are not yet fully recovered - but walking was okay. 

In the afternoon, I took Hoolie down to Mallory Square where all the cruise ships dock and the crowd gathers there for the famous Mallory Square sunset festivities. We were there at 3:00 pm so there was none of that but two huge cruise ships were present and had disgorged their passengers to the street of Key West. 

That’s America 2.0 coming back to harbor

We’ve used the cruise ship schedule to plan ahead for shopping near Mallory Square, going in that area only when there are no cruise ships scheduled to dock. Tuesday is such a day. Ann wanted to visit the shell shops there and an art shop that we like in the area. If we feel in the mood, we’ll even stop by Sloppy Joe’s for lunch - something you never want to do when there’s a cruise ship in town. 

All the charter boats here usually go out three or four times a day, two hours at a time.The last trip is always the sunset cruise and you can see in the last photo, one of the larger ships returning in the darkness.