This is the first winter in 22 years that we are spending here in Canada. We are not rich but did buy a cheap little piece of property in the Keys. 75 X 35 with a dock and a broken down cememnt building. Paid $30K for it and for the next 5 years we spent the winters fixing the pleace up. With the building and the trailer we lived a beautiful winter.
I bought a cheap boat and fixed it up and would just go out on the sea and sit there. As of the last few years I found I could not get health insurance, so I visited doctors here and had a couple of bucks in the bank just in case I needed a flight home.
Had a call from a neighbour down there who wanted to buy the place. We spoke to them the next winter and agreed to sell. $165.000 The stipulation was that we would hold off the last 1/3 of the money and could use the place till we could not go anymore.
Sold the boat and just in time Hurricane Wilma came by and distroyed the boat and everything in the place. We had 31 ins of sea water in the place.
We threw everythin in the garbage and FEMA and the Red Cross gave us a few bucks that helped.
I acquired Pulminary Fibroses and am near a cripple, can't hardly breath. So time is short, but we did not go down because my lady (wife) needs a knee replacement on Jan 21 and we will be here for the winter.
ENOUGH CRYING HERE.
I do remember the goodtimes on the strip. when the was the carnival and the dance hall. I went there in 1944 to see Vaughn Monroe. Used to get on the boat at James Street and come to the strip every Saturday.
Life was a holiday on the strip.Angus Inn bonfires on the beach, swimming in the bay, Lights music, Girls. etc. Calsonetti's fish and chip place at the canal.
My best buddy Peter Coletti. Wonder if you know who he is. Ha.
How do I miss it. Moved to Burlington Indian Point and always travel the beach strip .
Boo Hoo
Rae Baker
I bought a cheap boat and fixed it up and would just go out on the sea and sit there. As of the last few years I found I could not get health insurance, so I visited doctors here and had a couple of bucks in the bank just in case I needed a flight home.
Had a call from a neighbour down there who wanted to buy the place. We spoke to them the next winter and agreed to sell. $165.000 The stipulation was that we would hold off the last 1/3 of the money and could use the place till we could not go anymore.
Sold the boat and just in time Hurricane Wilma came by and distroyed the boat and everything in the place. We had 31 ins of sea water in the place.
We threw everythin in the garbage and FEMA and the Red Cross gave us a few bucks that helped.
I acquired Pulminary Fibroses and am near a cripple, can't hardly breath. So time is short, but we did not go down because my lady (wife) needs a knee replacement on Jan 21 and we will be here for the winter.
ENOUGH CRYING HERE.
I do remember the goodtimes on the strip. when the was the carnival and the dance hall. I went there in 1944 to see Vaughn Monroe. Used to get on the boat at James Street and come to the strip every Saturday.
Life was a holiday on the strip.Angus Inn bonfires on the beach, swimming in the bay, Lights music, Girls. etc. Calsonetti's fish and chip place at the canal.
My best buddy Peter Coletti. Wonder if you know who he is. Ha.
How do I miss it. Moved to Burlington Indian Point and always travel the beach strip .
Boo Hoo
Rae Baker
